Ripping copy protected DVDs on linux (ripguard, puppetlock, arccos etc)
Unfortunately, you can’t!!! Well, not as far as I can tell, I’ve asked around and scoured the web but it seems there’s no use, there simply isn’t a way to do it on linux. The next best thing is to use DVDFab for windows via Wine (it kind of semi-officially works with Wine).
As I found nothing really solid on google, I thought I’d write this post as it’s annoying when you can’t find anything.
How infuriating! What a great way to encourage people to illegally download things instead of buying them. I wonder when (or if) these movie studios will ever learn that it’s a really dumb idea to stop people having total control over things they buy.
Tags: arccos, copy protection, dvd, Linux, puppetlock, rip, ripguard, ripping
April 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
You can rip Arccos corrupted DVDs with VLC 100% of the time. DVD95 also works, directly, on some Arccos corrupted disks and if if doesn’t work directly you can use ddrescue to dump an image of the DVD and then use DVD95 on the image.
I have more details available here…
http://wiki.flexion.org/DVDRipping.html