It's been years since I've ripped DVDs (I probably stopped when this guy started) but the last I remember getting around copy protection was ...tricky. I have an archive of DVD's I'd love to digitize - anyone have a good ripper recommendation (Windows)? To be clear, these are DVDs I legally purchased and own.
Blu-Ray is another matter. As far as I can tell, it seems to involve a lot of tracking down the right keys from the internet. Maybe someone who's better plugged into the digital piracy scene and will have more perspective. I just wanted to copy movies onto my NAS so I don't have to look for a physical copy on my shelf. Maybe it's easier now, but when I tried a few years ago, the effort of tracking down decryption keys so I could copy my Blu-Rays wasn't worth the trouble.
4K UHD Blu-Ray discs are another matter though; I still have a couple of those I haven't been able to rip.
e: apparently since I last used it makemkv now finds as many of these on its own as it can: https://www.makemkv.com/svq/
There was a time I used handbrake to reduce the file sizes by encoding to x265 and that never resulted in any audio sync issues either.
Before, I used to use dvdbackup then ffmpeg for DVD ripping.
I found HandbrakeCLI did a better job, though, of handling errors in the stream which seem to be much more common in DVDs than CDs.
Or, more likely, the defaults were just more idiot (me) proof.
Encryption hasn't been a problem for a while.