This app isn't bad at all, designed to copy the contents of a video Blu-Ray disc to your hard drive [or a blank disc] without all the DRM -- once it's on your hard drive you can do whatever you want with the files. Note: Copying files from a Blu-Ray disc, &/or the software you use, may or may not be legal where you live -- even when making a backup copy may not be forbidden, software to bypass DRM might be, &/or any reverse engineering done to write working software may be illegal. DO realize that there are no guarantees, & the software you use may or may not be able to bypass the DRM on whatever disc you're trying to copy. That makes buying any Blu-Ray copy or ripping software a gamble, and you'ld want to buy whatever software because you'll need future updates. I wanted to touch on Leawo Blu-Ray Copy because it was on SOS, which means it's a bit more likely to be on GOTD, & if they offer the same sale pricing it's cheap compared to the big boys [Slysoft & DVDFab]. Note that I don't think anyone could possibly say what percentage of video Blu-Ray discs any copy/ripping app could handle, today or in the future -- all I can do is talk about the app itself to help you decide if you want to try it &/or buy it.
That said, I want to digress for a moment if I may... I've sometimes seen people talk or ask about the DRM on video Blu-Ray discs as if they were talking about a single or few standard methods, like something you might encounter buying whatever music or video on-line -- with video Blu-Ray that is not the case. When I check videohelp.com to see what's been updated etc., when there's a new version it's quite common to read in DVDFab or AnyDVD change notes how the software's been updated to work with some *New*, Just Discovered method of DRM. When I said above that it's a gamble, you're paying based on your hope or faith that whatever discs you buy in the future, that company you paid will continue to adapt & evolve their software [& on-line database] to match it.
Now, on to Leawo Blu-Ray Copy... Like most China-based video software, it works with minimal impact on Windows -- like some of those apps, the installation routine could be better. Personally I'd suggest using Universal Extractor to unpack the setup file, rename & copy the app folder wherever you like, then run & register it. Alternatively you could fire up virtualization software like Time Freeze, install the software, then copy the program's folder somewhere else temporarily while you restored the partition, or you could install it in a VM etc. Part of that is to avoid installing thdudf.sys, a hacked Toshiba Blu-Ray format driver that several Blu-Ray apps insist on installing. Part of it is to avoid adding the C/C+ runtime files that Microsoft says to add to Windows\ WinSxS\ -- not only does that add yet more bloat to that already bloated folder, but it doesn't do Windows' registry any favors in the process. Peculiar to Leawo -- & I've no notion why they do this -- you'll also avoid setup file leftovers in root [C:\ ] rather than in Windows' system Temp folder, i.e. [UserName]\ AppData\ Local\ Temp\].
Like other, competing apps, the GUI is pretty minimal -- developers [not just at Leawo] seem to see the DRM bypass function as a part of software that does quite a bit more. [Like many I value the freedom & flexibility of using other software for those other functions, but oh well...] A side effect of this sort of thinking is that since these copy apps are a limited or cut-down version of more full-featured software, there's a bit of bloat, with unused files/folders left hanging around with the copier's program files. With Leawo Blu-Ray Copy that means a program folder that takes up ~60 MB -- with the Aiseesoft Blu-Ray Copy app [on GOTD in early February] it's ~25 MB bigger.
Which leaves me really without much else to say about copy software itself. Unlike converters or rippers etc., you're copying data so there are no length of time to copy or quality of copy differences to talk about &/or compare. [I'll be generous & chock up any such comparisons by different companies to language barriers.] What you do need to be aware of is that once you have copied a Blu-Ray disc to your hard drive, you should check it thoroughly or risk wasting your time -- you don't have to, & you probably don't want to, but if you spend several hours on something & find out later you have to do everything over, remember it was your choice. You need to make sure that it plays, & that it plays all the way through from beginning to end with all of the original scenes playing in the original order. You also need to watch out for distortion &/or dropped frames. If your software player won't play a Blu-Ray disc as files/folders on your hard drive, DVDFab's free Virtual Drive software will create a mini-ISO & mount it for you.
