For anyone who is on the lookout to get a Nero-like utility that could rip, melt off, and author just about just about any optical media, look no further: StarBurn v.ten supports every little thing from CD-R to DVD+RW to Blu-ray, and it is really free--today only--from Giveaway from the Day.
Interestingly, there is a freeware version of StarBurn that is available everyday, nevertheless the Giveaway-of-the-Day version incorporates attributes observed only inside the $495 Network Edition--namely, DVD and Blu-ray decrypters and network burning abilities. Whilst StarBurn doesn't essentially duplicate safeguarded BDs and DVDs, it may produce picture data files (ISOs) from them, which you'll then turn all around and burn to blank media. (It won't make iPod-ready video clip data files, either--for that, search into a plan like HandBrake.)
Like former Giveaway on the Day offers I've mentioned, the only catch the following is that you have to obtain and install StarBurn these days. With that accomplished, it's yours to maintain. (After you set up the application, make sure to disable the "additional tasks" except the primary 1.) According to what I have observed to this point, StarBurn is a impressive utility which is unquestionably price downloading.