There's nothing quite like having your own movies along with you on a plane, on the bus, or even just sitting at home away from the TV. The Zune software won't do anything with a movie on DVD: It won't pull it onto your computer, and it definitely won't sync it over to your Zune. It's up to you to rip (copy from the disc onto a hard drive) the movie off the DVD yourself, which presents both some technical and some legal questions. The legal question is worth dealing with first, so you can decide if you're even interested in heading down the DVD-ripping path.
If you're going to rip video from homemade DVD movies, you don't have to worry about any legal issues; you can do whatever you want with your own videos. Ripping the latest new release off DVD isn't quite so clearly legitimate.
Many people consider ripping a movie from a DVD onto your computer similar to ripping music off a CD — completely within your fair-use rights for a product that you own. It's a little trickier with DVDs, though, because DVDs use encryption technologies to make copying their content a tad more difficult; most commercial CDs don't even bother with such technology. This slight difference may not seem like much, but it's led to a lot of debate and back and forth among lawyers — that's what you get when the law is complicated and you're right in the middle of a legal gray area. When all's said and done, though, you're not likely to have any issues if you
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