Microsoft Vista/ DVD burner question?

i just bought a laptop about a week ago that has microsoft vista on it. i don't know anything about vista and i've never owned a dvd burner. my question is, is it possible to take a dvd that i own, put it onto my computer (like when you rip a cd) and then burn it onto a dvd-r.

Microsoft Vista/ DVD burner question?spyware removal

99.9% of all store bought DVd have water marked copy write protction or something siimalr to make it vitualy imposaible to copy, oneneeds a very high skill level to do so

Th other issue is that DVD's use all knid of different andcombined copy protection so on any given dvd you have no idewa what type or how many differnet protections is built in

Microsoft Vista/ DVD burner question?virus protection software

Vista gets a built-in dvd burning program, you can burn DVD using that, but vista built-in programs cannot rip dvds, to rip dvds, you have to get a dvd ripper software, because dvds have copyright-protection on them and this removes the copyright protection, then you can rip them to your harddrive

here is a guide about how to rip a dvd

http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/guide/dvd...