Why discuss legality - you are allowed to discuss it here. And it is legal to make personal copies in the US and Canada and many other countries. I see software being sold at Future Shop and Staples for burning CDR copies of your DVDs and am seeking a solution for OSX. In OS9 the program "Forty-Two" works and once you find it you will find other bits but it is kind of hodge-podge - using 2 or 3 programs to rip, change format and burn. There must be a less cumbersome method in OSX by now. And I do mean for my legally owned DVDs for my own personal use in a country where it is legal. I have had to replace a DVD due to corruption - it was shaky when I played it the first time but OK, 6 months later it was a picture full of swimming squares - anyone want to buy my messed up DVD. Had to buy another. jj On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 05:25 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote: > You start out by saying simply that "In more than one country, the > operation > you describe is illegal". > Yet no further information is provided. Not which countries, no > quoting of > said laws, no links to the relative legal decisions, etc. In short, > what > amounts to little more than hearsay and scare tactics (the latter being > something we might expect from the MPAA itself). RIAA in North America. (isn't it?)