How to use handbrake to upload a dvd to itunes. Having trouble.

Movies/tv shows that you buy on DVD are encrypted to stop you from doing this. Breaking this encryption is illegal.

Cumby wrote:

So I own the Movie, but cant view it on whatever media I want to.

Correct. Not according to laws in most countries. In the US you are not even allowed to make a backup copy of a copy protected DVD. A few vendors provide a means to get a computer friendly version as part of a normal DVD purchase, but unless they provide for that then yes, they do expect you to buy the movie again in a computer friendly format. Thank your powerful media lobbyists and aquiescent lawmakers in Washington.

You probably won't get more response to this topic. Apple's terms of use for this site specifically prohibit assistence with copy protected media to the extent they will often simply remove the whole topic from the site if it just asks the question.

So I own the Movie,

You don't "own" the movie. You own a physical copy which gives you a license to do certain things, none of which is make a copy. You also cannot repackage it and sell it as "Cumby's Greatest Movie Ever". If you "owned" the movie, you could do that.

Let me guess, the same people that forced NetFlix to raise their rates.

No one forced Netflix to do anything.

Perhaps you should post in the Handbrake forums since the issue you are having is with Handbrake, not iTunes nor iPad nor your computer.

Very likely your issue would have been solved yesterday.

Cumby wrote:

I buy a movie to view it personally, not copy it to rip off the movie industry. No one buys a CD and then downloads the same album on Itunes so they can play it both on a cd player and ipod.

The advice you've been given is technically correct. However, it's worth pointing out that in the UK this is regarded as a "grey area". For example, the Macworld magazine will readily give advice on the kind of question you've asked, but will preface their replies by stating what the law actually says, especially with regard to piracy and copyright; then they add that IF the operation is merely to "rip" a DVD you've already bought so you can play it on your own iPod, then (etc etc etc).

FWIW, and in that context, you need to use Handbrake to convert the content to H.264 so it will play on iPods.

"I buy a movie to view it personally, not copy it to rip off the movie industry."

I understand.

"No one buys a CD and then downloads the same album on Itunes so they can play it both on a cd player and ipod."

Correct. But copying CDs to you computer was ruled legal in court cases.

Breaking the encryption on commercial DVDs has been deemed illegal by the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

Breaking encryption on any media is against the law in

most civilized countries in the world!!!!!

You do not "own" the movie. The movie studio does.

What you purchase is a license to view that movie from that

media only. Read the fine print that is on the cover.

This fact has been debated for a while now, and in australia and a few other countries if you own the dvd you can have a copy on your computer as long as you NEVER give a copy to anyone, and you must own the dvd if the dvd is given away the copy must be destroyed.