that is the problem. you can always convert those to mp4's and still have good quality. however, that is the rub. doing so creates the legal issue that so concerns us here.

-eric

On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Michael Butash wrote:

> Yeah, but who wants to keep 4.5gb iso's for 720p video at best.  You're looking at 30-45gb for bluray backups now for 1080p, if you could decrypt them from an iso (which I'm pretty sure you still can't, outside a ps3 with linux/cfw).  With h.264 you're looking at roughly 1/3-1/2 the storage.  Same as mp3/ogg/flac for reduced-size archives of my cd music too.
> 
> This alone is worth "illegal" decryption/ripping to encode with a better/effective codec if nothing else for personal archival copies of owned media and save space.
> 
> -mb
> 
> 
> On 03/02/2013 06:51 PM, Jason Spatafore wrote:
>> 
>> You still, however, are not permitted to decode the DVD and make illegal
>> copies. The archival clauses of fair use *do* apply if you are making a
>> backup of the DVD itself. However, a "back up" is a mirror image, so you
>> must include the encryption in your backup. (To do so on Linux, you can
>> use DD to make your backup instead of a DVD ripper tool.)
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