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UPDATE - unless you want to understand how this works, then you should check out k9copy instead.
UPDATE - Now works on Gutsy
I wrote a bash script to help you duplicate your DVDs. This may be illegal depending on where you live, but if you use your DVDs regularly you should have backups, to protect your investment. This script will backup the DVD to your hard disk, decrypt it, and create a directory structure that you can burn back to DVD-R. The following assumes that you are using Ubuntu, but I’ve run the script on both Libranet and Mandrake with only minor modifications (see comments within the script for hints.)
sudo su -c 'echo deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo su -c 'echo deb deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 libdvdread3-dev mkisofs dvdbackup dvdauthor transcode lsdvd
wget http://www.flavor8.com/dvd/streamanalyze_0.4-9_i386.deb
wget http://www.flavor8.com/dvd/streamdvd_0.4-9_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i streamdvd_0.4-9_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i streamanalyze_0.4-9_i386.deb
wget http://www.flavor8.com/dvd/DVD-Duplicator.gz
gunzip DVD-Duplicator.gz
chmod +x DVD-Duplicator
echo "Installation done"
echo
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 ... /dev/hdb /media/cdrom1 ... /dev/hdc /media/cdrom2 ...
> ls /media/cdrom0 > ls /media/cdrom1 > ls /media/cdrom2 AUDIO_TS JACKET_P VIDEO_TS
So, in my case, /media/cdrom2 is the drive, and (from the drive table that I got above) I can see that this refers to /dev/hdc filesystem.
To use it, on the command line, type: ./DVD-Duplicator folder-name, where folder-name is the name of the directory that you want the dvd to be backed up to. The directory will be created if it doesn’t exist already. Example, you might type ./DVD-Duplicator thematrix. Once the script finishes, you can now use k3b (or your favorite dvd/cd burning program) to burn the dvd from the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS directories that were created under the directory you specified. (Hint: the script can also generate an iso file for you to burn, if you have the hard disk space to spare; that way, you don’t have to worry about copying the files from AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. To use the script in this way, you might type: ./DVD-Duplicator thematrix thematrix-iso.)
If you have questions on getting it working, suggestions for improvement, etc, please post a comment here.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 has much in common with the 18th Amendment. It attempts to enforce an absolute value advantage where none exists and eventually prohibits mutually beneficial exchanges.
All those who have lined up on the side of Microsoft will soon discover that they are fighting battles they can never win. So they stoop to creating the BSA, influencing politicians and undermining whoever they perceive as their enemies.
Dell, HP, Gateway, Sony, IBM and the rest of Microsoft’s partners will find themselves painted with the same brush. You cannot enforce the DMCA any more than you can force people to buy American cars. Take a hint from General Motors: The word eventually gets out that you have inferior products and the price isn’t right. Microsoft’s OEM partners will become the buggy whip manufacturers of the 21st Century.
Trying to enforce your laws will eventually turn out like trying to keep illegal immigrants out of the country. You can only devote so many resources to the problem. The problem will eventually overwhelm you.
Good article by Lawrence Lessig, re the Brazilian Free Culture movement.
Two nights before my trip to the free-software lab, I attended a free-software rally at the same youth camp. Really. A rally. I arrived with [Brazilian government] Minister [of Culture] Gil and John Perry Barlow[, ex Grateful Dead lyricist, EFF co-founder]. The place was packed. There were hundreds inside the tiny tent; there were many hundreds more huddled outside. We were seated near the front, the only three with chairs. The evening began with some lectures, then followed with some music.
You can’t imagine this scene. Or at least you can’t imagine this scene as a rally for free software. I’ve seen free-software rallies in the U.S. They’re populated by geeks with ponytails. This was something very different. The tent was divided evenly between men and women. Geeks were in the minority. Most of the people at the rally were astonishingly beautiful, and amazingly articulate. They were young and intensely passionate. And they were chanting free-software slogans. It was Woodstock without the mud and squalor, and with a penguin in the middle of the room.
If the stakes were trivial, no one would care. But intellectual property (IP) is important. These are the ground rules of the information society. Mistakes hurt us. They have costs to free speech, competition, innovation, and science. Why are we making them?
To some the answer is obvious: corporate capture of the decision making process. This is a nicely cynical conclusion. But wait. There are economic interests on both sides. The film and music industries are tiny compared the consumer electronics industry. Yet copyright law dances to the tune played by the former, not the latter. Open source software is big business. But the international IP bureaucracies seem to view it as godless communism.
If money talks, why can decision-makers only hear one side of the conversation?
Forgent Networks, which has so far garnered more than $100 million in fees on its so-called JPEG patent, is going after the digital video recorder industry.
The Austin, Texas-based maker of licensing and scheduling software owns four patents it claims give it the right to collect royalties on computers or similar devices, such as those made by market leader TiVo, that record, store and play back video- and audio-transmitted signals.
While three of the patents primarily involve videoconferencing systems, patent No. 6,674,960 specifically addresses recording television signals to a computer.