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Over the last month or two, I've been transferring my DVDs onto my PC to stream them around the house. As you can probably imagine, this takes ages, and with the amount of free time I haven't got, it's taking even longer.
One of my friends came aroung today to use my broadband connection, bringing his laptop with him. As he's a holiday rep, he travels the world, so has also been encoding his DVDs to his hard drive. Being friends and growing up together, we've got a very similar taste in films.
How chuffed was I to find out that he's got about half of my DVD collection already encoded onto his laptop!  About an hour or two of checking and copying files, I'm now a LOT further through my DVD collection, and he's done the same through his. This has probably saved me several months worth of copying and encoding 
P.S. For those who may be concerned, we only copied across films that we already own. The temptation to copy others was obviously there, but with my converted collection now sitting at 311 films, and Xmas just around the corner, I didn't really feel the need to take any more
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Eeeek.
I thought backing up was the correct term.
Nice one tippon. yes back up those degradable fragile DVD'S to HDD and never have to buy them again.
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Golly. With these new customs laws coming in, I just hope you don't get stopped on your way to or from holiday. With all that CSS-cracking you've been doing they'll put you in chokey for 20 years!
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Holiday? What's that? 
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It's where you go away with the family and going back to work when you get back seems like the real holiday.
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Tippon (26/11/2008)
Holiday? What's that?
It's when you finish on Friday, have August Bank Holiday on Monday, go to Lake Garda for a week on Tuesday and then settle in with pipe and slippers for a well earned retirement.
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