Re:I want discs that work forever not just current (Score 1)

Actually, I had no problem ripping my copy of 100th Window here in Australia. It seems for some reason that one of the ways to circumvent the Cactus Shield stuff is to use your PCs DVD-ROM drive and it reads it perfectly. Not sure why (and not sure why it seems to be broken on some stereo component DVD players), but it worked for me. I guess YMMV though.