Listen up young disciples, the skill that you have been training for is within your grasp. You too can learn to master the Secret Art of DVD Decryption. All that you require is the tools you already possess, a little bit of knowledge, and a complete willingness to break every copyright law the society of man holds dear.
I experimented for what seemed like years trying to get my DVD burner to burn all my favorite Hollywood blockbusters, but every attempt was thwarted by the seemingly insurmountable force known as copyright encryption. To find a way to defeat my most hated enemy I sought the advice of a wiseman named Auto, who lived in the Sunset District of Frisco. He advised me to seek out three programs that would aid me in my quest.
The first of the three was essential: a program named DVD Decrypter. I managed to find the program for free using SoulSeek, a file sharing program I downloaded from http://www.slsknet.org/. SoulSeek is free to use, and it can get you all sorts of other free goodies, like a free copy of DVD Decrypter. Once you have found DVD Decrypter, and you have installed on your computer, you can burn a complete image of a DVD onto your harddrive, right down to the menus and extra features. That way all of you kung fu nerds out there can burn the original undubbed versions of all your favorite Sonny Chiba movies, but still have the dubbed version in case you want to take a hot sample for your new album. Nerd.
Now that you have the files on your puter, what to do with them you ask? I'll tell you. You're gonna need a burning program to be able to burn the image to a disc (what's called a DVD ROM). Auto, the wiseman, recommended to me a program named Nero. I’ve had much success with the program and currently have no complaints. You can burn the image from your harddrive onto any DVD-R that you steal, I mean, purchase legally at a local retailer. Nero isn't the most important of the trifector, other burning programs might work as well, but I give no guarantees.
That seems simple enough, right? Why would you need any other programs? The average DVD-R holds 4.7 GB of storage space on it. Many movies on professionally authored discs take up much more than that, with behind the scenes footage, trailers, and director's commentary and all. So, you're gonna need to compress some video using DVD Shrink. DVD Shrink is a truly brilliant program. It allows you to compress the movie on a DVD independent from the menus and special features; you can fully compress all the special features, sometimes allowing you to keep the movie at fifty percent quality or better and still be able to fit it on a disc. And believe me, the affects are hardly noticeable. It's still light years beyond VHS.
So go forth my disciples, and burn them DVDs. Break free from the oppressive shackles of retail prices for Hollywood movies. $25 for The Pacifier? No thank you. I'll go with my 50 cent copy of Master of the Flying Guillotine. Biyatch.
