RE: [OT] DVD ripping using multiplke firewire drives ?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Tim Fletcher
> Sent: 05 January 2006 10:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] DVD ripping using multiplke firewire drives
?
>=20
> As I personally don't watch more than a couple of DVDs a week - and I
fin=
d
> my 10 Terabyte storage system (which generates no heat, no noise and
cost
> =A3300 BTW) perfectly adequate (aka a pine bookcase holding all the
dvds =
-
> with me popping the one I want in the drive) perhaps I am not ideally
> positioned to comment, but it occurs to me that if  2 individuals both
> have
> the original DVD, then there is no copyright issue with sharing the
ISO -
> rather than each individual rip the same core of movies it might be
> possible
> for like-minded individuals to share some of their data.  I imagine it
> would
> go something like this -
>=20
> Email traffic to establish common DVD ground
> Copy list generated
> Arrival of recipient at donor's gaff
> Plug in TB Firewire enclosure
> Initiate copy
> Go to pub (recipient paying)
> Go out for dinner (recipient paying)
> Bed
> Breakfast - Donor's contribution
> Non-specific HA/Tech nerding
> Disconnect TB Firewire enclosure with approx 0.5TB DVDs
> Byebye.
>=20
> Reciprocation would always remain a possibility.
>=20
> Just a suggestion
>=20
> Tim

That's pretty much what I was doing at Xmas but believe me - it's more than
an overnight job to copy a terabyte of data across a network... ;-)

Phil