Comments on: Fairmount: Convert Your DVD Collection

By: Frakomp

Frakomp — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:52:29 +0000

Hey … people who think DVD ripping is immoral, incorrect or whatever. Feel free to not do it. Nobody is forcing you you know.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:45:15 +0000

my question is what am i doing wrong that my pc thats run on windows is not wanting to dowload fairmont to my pc. it cant find the files to download correctly......lost can someone please help me! sorry im born and raised in cali i burn cd and dvds for my personal use. if im on the pc why not use it! lmao

By: brokenjack

brokenjack — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:55:30 +0000

@Autumn Amen, to that. Do you think our founding fathers(USA of course) gave a rip(pun intended) about the overbearing government that dictated what they could and could not do. Listen, right now under current laws, yes, it is a crime to copy an encrypted DVD. Laws and ethics are not the same in my opinion. Laws these days are usually influenced by some expensive lobby group, that do not represent the collective desires of the public. Everyone weighs the risks and makes their own choice. I’m sure that 99.9% of adult folks out there have broken some sort of law. Speeding and reckless driving account for many deaths in this country, but for some reason “law abiding citizens” still do it…on a regular basis. It is not for those who abide by their own sense of what is right or wrong to pass judgement on what they think everyone else should be doing. That is up to the courts and jurys. Making backups of your own movies that you bought is a prime example of what you should be doing as a “free” American. Some MPAA regulation is not grounds for me to suddenly change what I believe in to be right. If the entertainment industry feels threatened, they need to change their marketing strategy in creative ways instead of wasting the markup money they collect paying off worthless lawyers convicting 12 year old kids….Where’s the Tylenol…

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:10:25 +0000

Fairmount and Handbrake do not do the same thing. Fairmount allows you to simply drag the Video_TS folder from your DVD to your hard drive. You can then play it using DVD Player or VLC directly from your drive in full DVD quality. Handbrake (at least the latest version anyway) converts your DVD to another format (mp4 file).

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:08:28 +0000

Huh, i read this article to see if there is any purpose to Fairmount. Personally, I definitely prefer Handbrake, as it is a one program solution. While, it may not be extremely fast, the quality turns out great with no errors. I backed up my entire Avatar (the last Airbender) season 1 with this and it’s just awesome. I recommend handbrake definitely.

By: VHS to DVD

VHS to DVD — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:18 +0000

Nice article. It offers a lot of information on how to convert VHS to DVD yourself. I find the process vary interesting and even went so far as to look even further into the products recommended. Unfortunately the cord to transfer VHS to DVD did not work for me. I have a fairly new computer that met all the minimum requirements and consider myself fairly able on the computer and with electronics in general. At this point I have given up so much time already that I would rather just use a video transfer service. Is there a video transfer service that you recommend and that would still give me the ability to edit my video tapes? Let me know if there is additional articles on this subject, I would find it vary interesting.

By: GEETCH

GEETCH — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:56:00 +0000

I have done much reading on this subject as I am a US citizan. I do not wish to brake the law but the rullings in California makes that difficult for me. I like to purchase tv shows such as south park and law and order. these are from 40 to 50 dollars a season. With my current job i do much traveling and i have lost one of the dvds in a season, now for me to stay 100% in the law i would have to go out and buy the season again for another 45 dollars or so to replace the lost or damaged dvd. If it is damaged you can return it to the manufacture and get the replacement as long as you have the proof of purchase, but in the case of a missing one im just SOL. so to bypass the second purchase, i use dvd shrink and dvd decrypter. also i use my movies for windows media center and i am looking at buying a home server to store all my digital back ups. i will still shell out the 45 bucks for the new seasons, but to re-buy one because of a damaged disc when i should be able to protect my investment under the fair use rights act, i dont agree with it. especially when i own 30 or so seasons of different tv shows that i like and legally buy.

By: Ni que fuera pendejo

Ni que fuera pendejo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:33:01 +0000

Piracy of movies and music is just a way of balancing the world’s obscene sense of price plus tax.

I only wish gallons of milk and women were digital.

By: appleblog roundup

appleblog roundup — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:24:27 +0000

[...] Convert Your DVD Collection with Fairmount: We’ve all had situations where we’ve needed to exercise our fair use rights and make perfectly legal copies of our own righteously purchased DVDs and Fairmount is here to make that task easier for you. Alternatively, if you just want to rip a copy of every movie that shows up in your mailbox from Netflix, it will help you do that as well. Just throw in a DVD and Fairmount will decrypt and mount the disk image, no fuss no muss. [...]

By: drew

drew — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:42:57 +0000

interesting program. but i never had to use something like this and i can copy, or transfer any dvd to whatever, dvd, avi, mp4 for my ipod for awhile now.
i use visual hub for transfering the Video_ts to different formats and mac the ripper + dvd2one for dvd copies. seriously, before that, for awhile, i was illegally downloading the classics i had in my library from the web.

i did same thing with music, i mean, i buy from itunes store and i cannot use the track for a personal video montage or anywhere else than in my itunes and my ipod. so i “illegally” downloaded what i had already buy legally.

i dont mind paying for my stuff, but what bothers me most, is when i cannot just enjoy the simplicity in it. when i buy a protected dvd, and i cannot import it to my computer/ipod, well there’s a little light in my head that shows that piracy is the simple way still.