Historically you have been allowed to make a backup copy of a media item you own. It is called a fair use doctrine and has been around far longer than DVDs or the draconian DMCA. It is technically illegal due to the DMCA and this is why 321 Studios was forced to pull its DVDXCopy software from store shelves after being sued by the MPAA-it violates the section of the DMCA that disallows products to bypass copy protection. Of course, any savvy PC user would simply download DVDShrink and sidestep this nonsense-Shrink not only bypasses copy protections and region coding, it removes them altogether in the output files. Not exactly what the copyright control freaks want, but you cannot sue an anonymous programmer living in Spain who does not make any profit or even accept donations for the work involved.

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Originally posted by: DanielB
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
LEGALLY YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE ONE ARCHIVE COPY AND ONLY ONE OF A DVD MOVIE THAT YOU OWN.
No, you are not.