Popcorn for Your PSP
Wednesday April 12, 2006
Roxio, the software publisher that brought Macintosh users the much-loved CD-burning software Toast, has come out with a new version of their DVD-ripping and -burning program Popcorn (and no, not all their software is named after food). Popcorn 2 allows you to copy DVDs on to your computer (except copy-protected DVDs, that is) and then convert them to formats for playing on portable devices like the PSP, iPod, and mobile phones. There are a host of new features and pretty much everything else has been improved from the original version. As a Mac user myself (at least half of the time), I'll be checking this out for sure.
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Remember that most all commercial DVDs are copyprotected, and that even if copying video is normally “fair-use” if a digital file is copyprotected, it is a felony to duplicate it, or any, encrypted file. It’s lame, but it’s the law. Check out www.eff.org for more info on the evils of the DMCA.
Thanks, Roger. This is useful information and something I’ll definitely read up on.