I have tons of DVDs that I have bought over the years, many of which I love.
I also have tons of empty DVD covers, and tons of cover-less DVDs.
Once and for all, I'd love to digitize (or more accurately, copy), each DVD onto a big hard drive, so that I can watch them easily, without hunting for the original disk. This would allow me to keep my precious original DVDs in an archive somewhere, away from harm; away from the prying fingers of kids and friends.
Problem is all the copyright issues. What's the cleanest and easiest way to "itunes-ify" (or equivalent) my DVD collection?
Answer
My favorite DVD ripper is still DVDFab; it combines top quality, speed and ease-of-use.
DVDFab is shareware, try before you buy.
If you want to catalog your movies I recommend php4dvd, a small yet powerful, PHP/MySQL-powered movie database. You can search IMDb.com for movie information and add your own covers.
php4dvd is open source freeware.
As for your legal concerns, I'd say under 'fair use', you are allowed to backup your movies. However, selling the DVDs and keeping the backups - that would be highly illegal. IANAL.
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