Imaging a DVD

Earlier today I tried using Disk Utility to create a disk image of a DVD movie. The first movie I tried to image worked fine. However, the next one didn't work. As soon as the imaging process started, I received an error:
"Unable to create disk3.img - Permission denied"
Any idea what this means? I've checked file permissions and they are fine. Is it because this is a (commercial) movie DVD?
Basically I want to store image files of my movies on my hard drive so that I don't have to always look for the DVD I want. I'm aware of utilities to rip DVDs, but I thought I might be able to just create image files for playing from the hard drive. The weird thing is, the first movie I successfully imaged was also a commercial movie DVD and it worked fine.
Any thoughts?
-Rob

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