How legal is this. And, if so, what software would you guy's recommend. For ripping the data.

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How legal is this.

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But my ability to speak German, is non existent 

Generally speaking -- outside of a wide array of counter-clauses -- it is illegal to do copy a copywritten DVD to a computer (at least in the U.S., and I assume the laws over there are relatively the same for this.) It's one of the reasons Disney and some others started to create digital copies released alongside a DVD. It allowed people to put a copy on their computer or smart device without breaking copyright law.

For the sake of simplicity (though a bit inaccurate,) copyright is not about the ownership of a physical object but instead the non-physical framework around which the physical product was created.  Just because I own a book that contains a bunch of short stories does not mean I become owner to the copyrights of the stories themselves or have the rights to do with it whatever I wish. Someone else still owns the stories (or movies, as it were in this case; they chose their way of distributing it; copyright binds me to not take an alternate course from the path they laid out... in this case, distribution of a DVD which itself is copyright protected separately.)

While there is a blurred line known as "fair use" in the laws of many countries that grant limited use of a product under very specific conditions, if you're heard that taking a certain action (copying from the DVD to a computer in this case) is questionable, then it's most likely not legal.  "Ripping" software is technically legal (at least in the U.S.) only because it is the weapon, not the weapon wielder; however, actually using the same software against copywritten material is illegal.


I hate the complexity of copyright law 

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