Making Copies of DVDS

I recently used Costco services to transfer a 16mm movie to DVD. (The movie was a college project. The copyright is my own.) Now I want to make additional copies of this DVD for friends and family and I cannot. When I tried using Toast to input the movie to my HD, where I would then use iMovie to do some additional editing, then transfer back to iDVD, the Costco DVD is "copy-protected"! I can't make any additional copies. I'm a bit stunned. This is MY movie.
Anyway, does anybody have any suggestions on how to import the project to my HD?
Thanks in advance.
Rich Green

Toast will make a 'cloned' copy without any conversion if that is all you want.
If you want to convert back to DV for further editing, try changing the permissions on the TS folder in Get Info (Finder). If you are successful, then you need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
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