Rippin' DVD's Baby! Mac the Ripper

Ahhh Ha! You thought I meant illegal crap didn't ya! Ooooh ya bastards! No!

Let me set the stage for you. I LOVE - SIMPLE LOVE WITH A SICK ADDICTION QUALITY - The British TV show GREEN WING If you haven't seen it, get the DVD! I did and that is why I am writing about MacTheRipper which I just downloaded. First, my bestest friend in the world Hana asked her sister who is living in London to pick me up season's 1 and 2 for Christmas. YAY! I am also lucky enough to be able to play them in my mac. However, some of you may or may not know about region codes. Well simply put we ( in the US ) are in region 1 - and England is region 2 and there for I can not play the DVD's in my regular DVD player.

So yeah, if you happen to pick up a movie that's still in theaters at a outdoor shop in China, those are region 6 and won't play on a dvd player in the US, Canada, England, most of Europe and any where else for that matter - except China.

So along came MacTheRipper and god bless 'em for doing so. Sure you can be a tool and rip DVD's you rent or borrow and you'd be a tool for doing so.... BUT here I am with a real reason to do so. A friend and her sister out of the kindness of their heart got me a present that granted I can use, but you only get 5 times to change your Mac DVD region and I do intend to switch it back at some point. So - the plan,... Rip the DVD's to remove the region code and simply enjoy them on my home DVD player and watch them on the big flat screen and above all, turn all my family and friends on to this twisted, yet enjoyable, warped British TV programme.... or however they spell it over there.

I'm rippin' right now, and it's BEAUTIFUL. And did I mention, it's a free download. Amen.

MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking. It can also copy ARccOS copy-protected DVDs.