How to burn a back-up copy of a copyrighted DVD

[simon888]

I am trying to burn extra copies of my bought DVD's (on my Pioneer 104 writer) as I always lend them out and lose them, but I cannot seem to do it using RecordNow Max4. A message saying that the disc may be copyrighted comes up. Is there any way I can get around this at all? Or am I doomed never being able to copy DVD's? I know you can get round this problem on CD's by using CloneCD but is there a cloneDVD?

[Craig Tucker]

You need to rip the DVD, firstly to get rid of encryption and region encoding and secondly to make them fit on a DVDr. Most DVDs are dual layer and beyond the capacity of a blank DVDr. See the how to DVD rip on this site.

Craig

[simon888]

Thanks alot Craig. I'll give it a try.