I bought a new movie today but stupidly I did not look if it was DVD or Blu-Ray, I did not get home until I opened it, it's Blu-Ray. Problem: I have only a DVD player at home and my laptop can't synonymous Blu-Ray's play. Exchange is also not possible, was there again and have asked.
Since I can only watch DVD's I wanted to try now to burn the Blu-Ray to a DVD. When I was looking for a Ripper, I also found articles that you can't circumvent the copy protection and that it is punishable. Other websites have claimed that if it is only for private use and you do not act or otherwise what is allowed to burn. And I also only intend to use it for private use only for myself.
Am now completely confused by the different statements, is one here with it?
Illegal.
Do you chuck here:
https://bluraytools.de/blu-ray-copy.html
If you have to circumvent a copy protection, it is illegal.
In itself you can't get the data of a Bluray on a DVD. For one, you would need a device that Blurays can read. Then there's the dataset. A Bluray can hold 25, 50 or 100GB… A DVD (Dual Layer) 8.5 GB…
That's right.
Backups for yourself are allowed, while copy protection is prohibited. So, in fact, the backup copies for yourself (as many do, for example, hard disks on which then all films are) are practically never legal, because you would have to circumvent the copy protection and virtually every blueray has one.
If you actually only use this for yourself, but nobody can show you, because where no plaintiff there's no judge - should also be self-explanatory. So purely legal is the whole thing a real gray area (because Illegal but just not pursued), but know no case where someone would have been cracked for backup copies - if then the avoidable backup copy was lent or similar. - which is definitely not ok.
