Apparently tired of waiting to be sued by the motion picture industry over its new DVD-to-PC copying software, RealNetworks this morning announced that it will file a preemptive legal action of its ...

San Diego-based RealNetworks on Monday unveiled RealDVD, a PC application that lets consumers save their DVDs to their hard drive to watch later without lugging around the physical discs. In a ...

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Another option might be to connect to a PC that shares its optical drive on the network. But the USB copy deal might be more convenient.

How would I go about copying a DVD to my computer? Can I use my internal DVD player to rip it, or do I need some special program? Or even worse, would I have to buy a DVD-RW or DVD-R?