Making copies of purchased DVDs

I am a totally new mac user, I've had a mac two days, and am wanting to make a copy of a DVD that I purchased for my own personal use. I have looked in the tutorial lessons and tried to copy the image like it says to through the disk utility, but it gets into it a little bit then an error message pops up that says "Unable to create 'Cassanova.cdr' - Input/output error. What am I doing wrong, or am I unable to make copies of purchased dvds on a mac?
Let me know if I need to tell you more information to fix this problem.
I have iDVD 6.
Thanks a lot!!!
macbook   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Hi larry,
welcome to the  board
you stumble into a few problems:
* commercial DVDs are often copy-protected - a mechanism, which does not allow to use the "usual" copy techniques, as Disk Utility... you need a tool to "rip" a DVD... which is in many countries illegal...-
* step 2 is to make the copy of the DVD smaller - most commercial DVDs are double-layered= 7.7GB... tools as DVD2One or Popcorn (part of the Toast 7 suite) do this legal "crunching"..
* the common behavior in this forum is NOT to link to any rippers..- in most areas of this planet, overriding copy protection is illegal... in my country the ownership, even the mentioning of any Ripper is illegal - but a socalled "personal copy" is allowed... laws...- ... you have to decide on your own, how to handle that...- googling will led you to some sources and tools....
pay the artists//respect local laws//get good kharma

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