AnyDVD works perfectly for allowing backup of both Blu-ray and HD DVDs. Does it allow one to make a copy of a downloaded DVD that is already stored on a harddrive, but has a 1-n day timeout?
AnyDVD has handled
FluxDVD protection since v6.0.4.5.
CinemaNow.com is one of the sites that [still, to my knowledge] makes use of this copy protection. I can only assume you would have to have burned this downloaded movie to a DVD disc or mounted an image of it in order for
AnyDVD to remove the protection, however, since
AnyDVD won't work on DVD files sitting on your HDD. I'm not aware of other protection schemes for downloadable movies but there likely are some.
FluxDVD is the one I've read about and was backed by Hollywood.
That said, it's not recommended to download such movies since the quality is not nearly what it would be from a retail DVD release along with the constraints placed upon it. While
AnyDVD does handle the protection and has been updated numerous times I don't know if
Slysoft would consider it a priority when compared to protections such as
Arccos,
Puppetlock,
Ripguard,
ProtectX, etc as found on commercial DVDs.
James, himself, has advised purchasing a physical disc which can always be backed up.
Refer
here for that posting.