imo, burning is worse the ripping. Sure you can rip a rental movie, but then again you can just download a movie and burn it anyway. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. This is why I can't understand burn without read. (this is just my opinion of course.) Also, it's easier to have things on your hard drive (for me) then to have a million scratch-vunerable discs that i'll most likely lose.