DVD Reader Vs Ripper Softwares

Clarifications

1. Have not heard of any corruption or damage.
2. Contact an attorney in your area; they will be able to better answer your legal questions. We are not a legal forum.

Just because rippers are out there doesn't imply that using them is legal according to the copyright owners and recording industry. Once such company, which was called 321 Studios, and has been sued out of existence by the 12th Circuit Court in California, produced one such product called "DVD XCopy" which was very popular at the time and sold more copies than Windows XP itself at the time. The president of 321 Studios was fighting RIAA in his claims that it should be legal for owners of purchased DVD movies to make backup copies for archival purposes should the original disc get damaged, but the RIAA sued and the courts rules against 321 Studios, saying that their software allows for piracy of commercial DVD movies and forced 321 Studios to remove the ripper code from DVD Xcopy. Now without the ripper piece, their software was good as junk, so unfortunately for them, they were forced to file chapter 7 and closed down for good. This is a constant battle between us consumers and the beaurocracy that is the recording industry.