Quote Originally Posted by bfalls
The time and effort involved is not worth it when DVD are coming down in price. Most often it's DVD renters who attempt to rip rented movies, so the initial cost of renting the movie comes into play. Future efforts will include some type of unique ID on each disc, similar to copy protection on computer games, where only the original disc can be played. My time is too valuable to waste when a DVD can be purchased for les than one hour's work.
Not always, for example, I have 3 small kids. They have scratched the hell out of most of their Disney DVD's. Disney wants $8.00 plus shipping for a replacement.

DRM laws legally prevent me from making legitimate copies of them. That is BS.

And it really isn't all that hard to make copies of DVD's. Sooner or later it will be easy to make copies of the next gen DVD.

If the studios and Sony make it too cumbersome for the average consumer to watch a movie the new formats will fail.