There comes a point in every DVDs life where it just doesn't play properly anymore. Scratches on the disk cause skipped frames and image corruption and no amount of cleaning will fix the problem. What are you to do? The solution is to backup your DVD before it becomes completely unplayable. Now you might have been fooled into believing that this is illegal or at the very least immoral. I'm not going to debate that - if you want to let a scratched DVD fail on you and have to buy it again it's up to you. What I will do here is to show you ho you can probably save yourself the expense of purchasing a DVD a second time. Let me make one thing very clear before we continue. I do not condone using this information to make copies of DVDs to give away or sell to other people. While I might strongly disagree with the tactics being employed by the film producers they do, at the end of the day, own the copyright on the work they produce and can therefore place whatever restrictions they want on it.