Hollywood Hit: RealDVD Will Copy DVDs No More

Remember RealDVD, that famous piece of paid software that let you simply and easily let you make a fair copy of a DVD onto your PC's harddrive as a "personal" backup? It's been killed by Hollywood's lawyers, very finally indeed.

RealNetworks released the software back in 2008, and though there are many equivalent bits of shareware and freeware for Macs and PCs that do pretty much the same thing, RealDVD was instantly one of the most famous, and one that did much of the tricky DRM-bypassing...