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Originally Posted by Neil
I thought the grey area was making backup copies of your own disk.
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It's not at all grey, I'm afraid. WIPO makes any circumvention of copy protection schemes such as Macrovision or content scrambling system (CSS) unlawful. However, if they took you to court and won, they would have to be able to prove damages before they could get any money out of you- something they can't easily do if it's for personal use (just don't share!). I do mine so that they can be watched in the caravan while we're on holiday.
With my discs, I use a program called "DVD Decryptor" to get the files onto the hard drive. Sony ones are a minor headache - but if you're just starting out, don't start buffing your discs with one of those disc polishers when your decryptor says they're damaged.
You don't usually need to do any more recoding to get the film onto a DVDR- just ditch all the additional languages and subtitles, menus and extras. You'll end up with one video and a single audio stream. Then you can burn that to DVDR with Nero or similar. Squashing the video to fit it on a disc will cause a drop in quality. Whether it's enough to be noticed is another matter.