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Many people may have big original DVD collections of favorite actors and most of these DVDs are copyrighted. To prevent these valued DVDs from any loss or damages, the best way is to keep them well on computer. But there is one problem when they start to rip copy protected DVD, most of them don't know is it legal to rip these DVDs with a ripping program. Or would this be considered illegal because most of the DVDs are copyrighted.

Generally, backup them and rip to video formats stored in your own computer should not be a problem as long as you own the original. But making them available for upload or share them otherwise may be illegal, depending on the country you live in.

Then what program should be used to rip these copy protected DVDs, especially now when new copy protection technology are widely used in DVDs released by Hollywood, Disney, Paramount, Warner Home Video, etc. The newly released film like Transformer 2, Up, Star Trek 2009, The Dark Knight, WALL-E, and many other are well protected with the latest copy protection, it is difficult to copy and rip DVD to hard disk as common videos.

Best DVD Ripper to Rip Protected DVDs to Video

The commonly used DVD ripping software in the market which declares to be fully compatible with protected DVD is no longer be able to hold water. They can not rip the latest protected DVD, the output videos are either out of order or mixed-up, the constant crashes are more common in the ripping process, including the famous free dvd converter - HandBrake

Sog DVD Ripper Platinum is upgrade with new features. And it is tested and proved to one of the handful DVD ripping software which supports ripping the DVDs of the newest DVD copy protection technology. It allows users to copy the newest protected DVD to hard drive as popular video formats, including: AVI, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, etc. What's more, it still owns the ability of ripping different DVDs (including encrypted DVDs) to Sony PSP, Apple iPhone, iPod, iTunes, Apple TV, Zune, Mobile phone, etc. And after upgrade, It supports multi-core CPU and fully compatible with Windows 7. It becomes the fastest DVD ripping software in the world. Besides these basic functions, it also has advanced function such as clip video segment, adjusting parameter settings, and so on.

For those who have quite a bit DVD collections, don't hesitate to download Sog DVD Ripper Platinum and have a try right now.

It is easy to backup protected DVD movies with this DVD ripper, here we took Transformers 2 for instance.

How to backup DVD movies with Sog DVD Ripper Platinum

The Tools You Need:

1. DVD player or DVD player software.

2. Download Sog DVD Ripper Platinum. If you have, please make sure the version is higher than V5.2.

Step 1 - Precheck the DVD Title Number

Play the movie Transformers 2 with DVD player software. When it comes to the movie (main content), please check the DVD title and record the title number.

Tips: From our test and customers' feedback when backing up Transformers 2, you may try title 47 or title 86 first. If they don't work, you need to find the title number by playing it because the title number changes in different DVD version.

Step 2 - Select the Correct Title Number

1. Launch Sog DVD Ripper Platinum and import the DVD of Transformers 2. You can load from DVD driver by clicking "DVD Disc" or from DVD folder by clicking "DVD Path".

2. Uncheck the wrong title. By default, the first title is selected.

3. Find the title number you record and check it. Then you are able to rip and backup DVD from the main content.

Step 3 - Rip and Backup Transformers 2.

1. Select the output format as you wish, like DVD to AVI, DVD to WMV, DVD to MPEG, DVD to iPod, DVD to iPhone, etc.

2. Click "Browse" button in output setting area and select a destination folder to save your converted video.

3. Start ripping. You can view the conversion progress and are able to cancel the converting process at anytime.

Optional:

1. Choose Audio language.

2. Choose the subtitle if you need. The subtitle is disabled by default.

3. Define video and audio parameters to customize video quality, like resolution, and frame rate, etc.

4. Select "Use High Quality Engine" for better image quality.

5. Choose "Use Advanced De-interlace Accelerator".

After that, you can successfully rip and backup Transformers 2 to the format you wish. Free download Sog DVD Ripper Platinum now!

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