How To Clone A DVD

This instructable will teach you how to clone a DVD and create your own DVD with a picture on it.


Another nice thing about this is that you can put a different picture on a backup of a copy of your DVD, if you don't like what it has on it (Like the one in the picture)

The images are bad quality because they were taken with my iPod, the DVD quality is much better than this.

Step 1 Step 1: Choosing A DVD (And Other Needed Items)

Go to your local movie store and see if you can buy a DVD that you like, or use your own. You will also need to get a pack of 4.7 Gigabyte Printable DVD-r's, and you will need to download imgburn and dvdshrink 3.2

You will also need a printer that is capable of printing onto CDs/DVDs. I use the canon Pixma MG5200..

DVDShrink

IMGBurn

Comments

[XOIIO]

If everyone could do me a favor I would appreciate it, Could anyone who argued that this instructable was illegal delete their comments? I am doing the same. If the comments are not deleted I am being forced (By a non-legal outside force) to delete the instructable. I would like to not have to do so.This comment will also be deleted once the other comments are removed. I would appreciate this ASAP

Thank you.

[triumphman]

I have dial -up ! Will this work for my computer or will it take a week to download?

[XOIIO]

The software is a really small download.

[Reffner]

The argument these days is that you don't OWN the movie, you buy the rights to watch the movie. Several cases dealing with this same thing were successfully prosecuted, although it was on a much larger scale. The point is, the precedence has been set, and if they really wanted to prosecute, they would probably win their case. My suggestion is to be very careful here.

[sharlston]

Isnt this illegal?

[awz123]

It isn't technically illegal because, after you have bought any copyrighted software/album/movie/material, you can do anything that you wish as long as you are not going to redistribute it. so putting it into your ipod, transferring it into your computer or to another dvd for backup is considered legal. However file sharing them over the internet or redistributing and selling them is illegal.

[Nostalgic Guy]

Just a few words of advice so please don’t take this the wrong way.
I would be VERY careful about copyright law if I were you.
To start with in the past companies that produced DVD backup software have been successfully prosecuted in federal court by the movie industry causing them to cease production of said software.
Also buying does not give you the automatic right to make copies, when you buy any media whether it be music, software, movies or games you enter into an agreement with the company that produces it, as a rule this will include clauses covering making copies or backups of said media most people don't read the agreements but this does not mean they are not bound by them.
Renting is not the same as buying & even if in the extremely unlikely event that a company did allow purchasers to make copies they sure as heck wouldn’t allow people who rent to do so as they will only receive a tiny proportion of their usual cut of the money if anything at all.
You have suggested that people who wish to follow your 'ible RENT a copy of a movie this is not BUYING, as a RENTER any rights that may be conferred on a PURCHASER are not applicable, if you have a copy of your agreement with your rental company you way well find that they also include a clause denying you the right to copy anything you have rented from them I know place I used to use had such a clause.
As I said just a few words of advice but worth bearing in mind before you suggest to people that they are not breaking the law.

[XOIIO]

Rent? I don't see the word rent anywhere ;)

Seriouslt though, I own thos DVD's, and you should only do this to a DVD that you own.

[NachoMahma]

. Step 6, first sentence: "The DVD that you rent from the store..."

[Nostalgic Guy]

Whoops.......... I think the Re-Editing needs another go XOIIO ;-)

[XOIIO]

Thanks.

[XOIIO]

Exactly. I own those DVD's, and wanted to have back-ups in case something went wrong with the originals.