Copyright protection of a DVD means that the content of the DVD is protected and you can’t copy them directly to another disc or other medium. Such methods are used to prevent DVDs from being duplicated, copied, or played back on other devices that do not have permission.
All commercial or copyright-encrypted DVDs are protected to stop people from illegally copying. Most commercial DVDs are prohibited with DVD region codes, CSS (Content Scramble System), APS (Analog Protection System), Sony ARccOS, and many more.
Commonly movie DVDs are protected using APS, Playlist Obfuscation, Sony ARccOS Protection, and also DVD Disc Corruption. Also, they come with DVD Cops, Burst Cutting Area, ProtectDISC Video, ProtectDISC Software, DRMs, and etc. copy protections.
In case you want to copy or rip a DVD to a digital format, you need to remove the copy protection first. The good news is that there are some useful free and paid DVD rippers around.
To better deal with DVD copy protections, you need to use professional DVD rippers. The free ones don’t cover all and have some limitations, like slow conversion, complicated operation, output quality drop, and unable to rip copy-protected DVD discs. Check out the recommended DVD copy and DVD ripping tools below.
Also, watch the video below to know how to copy DVD to USB drive using a dvd ripper: