With the advancement of technology from VHS cassette tapes to the more compact, higher quality DVD, many people began switching over their collections of movies to keep up. Some people began to build their DVD collections through buying all of their movies over again. Home movie makers bought new DVD camcorders that allowed them to burn their special moments from then on straight on to the new technology. However, for many, the idea of purchasing hundreds of movies again for fifteen to twenty-five dollars each or paying a professional to transfer their home cassettes with years of memories on them was daunting to say the least.

This is where making a clone, or copy, of these movies at home on a reasonably priced machine came in. It allowed people to spend a nominal amount of money and still keep up with the technological advancements that came about at the turn of the century. Being able to clone their own movies then gave way to backing up their purchased DVD’s which allowed the original DVD to be viewed only once and the back up to become the one that was put in and taken out of the DVD player.

The downside to all of this was just around the corner. With all of this technology coming out in such a short time, piracy of DVD’s and VHS movies and television shows skyrocketed. People were taking their collections of movies and burning them onto the new DVD’s only to resell them at a greatly discounted price.