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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
That's because the US, Australia, the UK and Japan are all signatories to the WIPO treaties, and therefore have to have copyright laws that are in line with the treaties.

Not really, I mean they do let us have a legal right to back-up software, remember. I personally think that right should be protected and software companies which try to take it away from us by employing such copy-protections methods as SafeDisc should be prosecuted for interfering with the consumer's legal rights. Let me give you an example, it is illegal for a Lawyer to refuse to represent me in court. Illegal. This is because I have a legal right to legal representation, therefore they are under legal obligation to represent me in court if I want them too.

Now lawyers could get away with suggesting other firms, etc - but if I stick to my guns and they say "no I will not represent you" then that lawyer has interfered with my legal rights, and I could prosecute him for it. I think that software protection should be handled the same way, I have a legal right to back-ups there, if someone tries to prevent me from exercising that right they should be liable.

Anyhow back to the original question, cubebox, there may have been an error reading the original DVD that was copied. You could try cleaning the disc and starting again. Macrovision does not apply to PC copying, CSS encryption prevents you from copying the files off the disc in the first place, the fact that you copied them proves either there was no CSS or that it was cracked.