For this example, I’m ripping the DVD of the movie The Departed, so I called the project “departed”. Now click on the button labelled +create project. dvd::rip will want to know where to put the *.zip file. Note that the files created by dvd::rip will appear in a sub-directory of your home directory. If you change it in the Project name box, it will automagically change in the other boxes too. By default the project is called unnamed.

The next screen will want some storage path information. Under the File menu, click on New Project. We’re nearly there: all you gotta do is to stick in the DVD and rriiiip it. Okay, you have dvd::rip installed on your system and you have a DVD you want to rip.

If, for some reason, your distro installation system doesn’t find dvd::rip, you can find downloads in various formats here. Tell it to install, and in a jiffy dvd::rip will be downloaded and installed, stupid double-colons and all (depending on how fast your internet connection is and how long you consider a jiffy to be). But the Ubuntu Software Centre will find it easily enough, or the package manager of whatever Linux distro you’ve installed. It’s a stupid name because those dumb double-colons stop you from installing the program via the command line (ie sudo apt-get install application-x). My personal choice is dvd::rip, despite its stupid name.

Okay, so you have Linux (Ubuntu! Ubuntu! Choose Ubuntu!) installed. Ubuntu is my favourite (also my first, so I may be biased) but there are lots of other distros to try. And if that doesn’t work out for ya, get yerself a Linux OS.

Tenacity is a great quality for a pirate, hacker, oil-field surveyer, just about anyone to have. Now for the bad news (so far as most of you are concerned – it’s a Linux program!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! Linux FTW!! If you want to learn how to rip DVDs with Windows or Mac, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Luckily for you, I (the King of stealing shit) found the dvd::rip download page. I mean, what’s up with the double-colons? They’re invisible to Google as far as I can make out. And the children! Won’t somebody please think of the children? I like using dvd::rip despite its stupid name. Think of the poor movie stars, the directors, the multi-millionaire producers. Don’t copy DVDs! Not only is it illegal, it’s not a victimless crime.

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