How to Crack a DVD

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Trading music online is easy. It takes a real pirate to rip copy-protected video. Here's how to convert a Hollywood DVD into compressed DivX for playback, editing, or broadband trading via your PC.

| 1. Step 1

Get software: Google "rip DVD" and you'll turn up tons of underground freeware for decrypting, ripping, and encoding. The best: EasyDivX (see: easydivx.does.it).

| 2. Step 2

Rip: EasyDivX can now copy the unscrambled video object files onto your hard drive. Make sure you have at least 10 Gbytes available to temporarily store the raw video.

| 3. Step 3

Decrypt: To unscramble a DVD, play it on your PC. EasyDivX grabs the stream. (Our lawyers suggest talking to your lawyers first; you may be violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.)

| 4. Step 4

Compress: The software can boil a 9.4-gig feature-length flick down to a 700-Mbyte DivX file, which fits on a CD and is the video swapper's top choice.

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