[marie]

hi to all,

does anybody know if its ok to bring my collection of pirated DVDs? i dont have original ones so i cant mix it up. is customs strict on this? i read somewhere that if its for personal use its ok.

[toots]

If you just slot them in amongst your other stuff you should be ok. As far as I know they never look at these things anway. We had loads of CDs the kids brought with them - some on the plane and the rest were shipped over

Be interested to know how how you managed to make copies though ;) , don't most DVDs have anti copying features now?

[Bubbles]

Toots
There's quite a few free dvd ripping tools out there on the web. They're very good and give quality results in a MPEG format which is cut to CD-r in a VCD format. ( A little bit of re-encoding involved, but not difficult to do ) Not quite dvd quality but unless you really look you would never know the difference. If you want the names of software I use give me a pm.

Cheers and Happy Xmas

John

[catjlin]

As far as I know, recording the DVD for your own use is legal, as long as you do not mean to redistribute it. At least that's what my fiance tells me about his large 'collection'.
Cat

[Milliemoo]

yes, we were a bit worried about this. We have approx 200+ DVDs plus about 100+ legal DVDs.

The law in the UK is different to the US. In the US I believe it's OK to make 1 copy of an original DVD, the idea being that if your collection was stolen, you have a back up copy. This is not legal in the UK however.

Frodo's even printed out covers for a few of our 'internet DVDs' but I think we'll chance it and just mix them all up together.

Milliemoo ;)