dyefade's Journal: DVD ripping

In town on Saturday (I don't know when this will be uploaded), Doug pointed out something slightly worrying (though not for me). When tapes were a standard audio format, dubbing was rife, but the tapes are of such a crap quality anyway that it wasn't really a problem for the industry. Now that CD's are a standard, copying (or more commonly mp3ing) of them is an increasing (though still not desparately significant) problem for record companies.
In film, DVD is slowly but surely becoming the accepted format (over the ancient VHS tapes). Copying VHS tapes was, like dubbing audio cassette's awkward, and it produced low quality results. Now that DVD's are available, and ripping them (natively, or to DivX) is relatively painless (if rather slow), will DVD ripping become a problem in the same way as CD ripping? All the time bandwidth gets cheaper and storage more available, maybe we will soon see the film industry complaining like the music industry is at the moment. Hmmm.