The law doesn’t make any exceptions for personal use - or creating digital backups.īut, it also doesn’t say that you can’t copy the content on your own devices. Title 17 states that making a copy of an original work without the creator’s consent, is considered copyright infringement. You can, for example, easily upload your old discs to iTunes and digitize your library with minimal effort - and zero legal repercussions. Where it gets confusing is, CDs have laxer rules regarding ripping for personal use. If you happen to come across an unencrypted DVD, ripping it for personal use is A-OK. Most DVDs and Blu-Rays come with encryption attached and breaking that encryption is illegal. So, just about anything that comes with a label indicating copyright, which includes basically any movie you can think of. State Code explicitly states that it is illegal to reproduce a copyrighted work.

In the U.S., it is still illegal to rip DVDs of copyrighted work for personal use, though there are several groups working to change this law. As for network software for the playback of the files Plex and Emby are the ones I would look at.Legally stream your favorite movies online watch now ► On my PC I use an Asus BD-16D1HT which has been flashed to be UHD friendly and I can backup anything (except SACD) with that drive using AnyDVD HD. Not beinf Mac familiar I don't know if there any external enclosures that will allow you to flash an external drive to UHD friendly but some googling should give you the answers there.

Alternatively, if you have access to a PC with a standard form factor optical drive you could temporarily switch it out with a bought UHD friendly drive and perform any required firmware UHD friendly update there and then transfer the modified drive to an external enclosure for use with your MacBook. As it's an external drive you want I recommend getting a standard form factor one (preferably from a supplier that pre-loads it with a UHD friendly firmware) and putting it in a suitable external enclosure. On the ripping side of things I would recommend AnyDVD HD and a 'UHD friendly' drive.

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