Best program to Copy games Legally?

Imgburn will do it:
http://www.imgburn.com/
(Its freeware)

Bear in mind that most games run a check when they run (and will happy install from a copied disk). You need to patch the game executable(s) as these will check the physical disk.

So you need to visit Game Copy World:
http://www.gamecopyworld.com/

Nuff said!!

Bob

HIGHLY doubtful. "These suckers" usually don't bother suing individuals copying a few games here and there.

Usually.

Actually, if you look at any of the big game piracy cases, they defendants were usually copying games and SELLING them to other people. In a recent one, the defendant had made $300,000 selling modified game consoles and pirated games. Honestly, I'd just suggest using no-cd cracks for your games instead, that way he won't have to worry about keeping a bunch of discs around either.

americanbrian,

Your name is some what confusing as to what country you are from and which laws you are basing your statements on. Here in the US we have the "fair use doctrine" when it comes to copy righted material. It's far from a cut and dry law but what it basically says is that the original purchaser of copy right protected material has the right to basically do what they want with it as long as it falls under "fair and personal use". For example you can make a copy not only for backup purposes, but even for our own personal use as long as it is fair (you can't make a copy for yourself and then resell the original). I for example have copies of all my games on multiple PCs in my home. What I think you're confusing with law is the game companies own user license. There's a lot of crap in most EULA and TOSs that actually conflict with laws in various areas. In fact a very common disclaimer in most of these agreements is one that says that in the event that some clause or section is invalid the rest of the agreement still remains valid. Kind of a CYOA because they know a lot of the crap they put in there is not enforceable.

To the OP,
Your concern is legit and I've heard it from many in the military. Personally I like Farstone's Virtual Drive Pro.

Well like I said it's hardly cut and dry. But most of the "poor old grannies" getting busted did in fact go beyond reasonable "fair use". Usually what happens is that they download a song or something which in itself isn't the real crime. But since grandma doesn't know much about how P2Ps work she leaves that song in her shared folder and 100,000 others copy it from her. People try to make it out that she got sued for downloading "just 1 song" but in reality she got sued for distributing 100,000 songs.
Doing what the OP described is not going to get you busted. Could you imagine some game company going after somebody in the armed forces for simply preserving their software? It would be a PR nightmare.

In the UK it's legal to produce backup copies of your software for personal use, provided that if you sell the original media on you destroy the copies.

was just coming back to clarify actually. Just checked with one of my old workmates. It's illegal to work round copy protection, unless the product is no longer produced. Lets say you have a game that can't be bought anywhere else, then you are within your rights to make your own backup (at least in the UK). However if the manufacturer of the software is still publishing something, then they have a legal obligation to resupply you with the correct media if that has gone faulty within a "reasonable period", for a CD that would be about 10 years if the manufacturer claims about CDs are valid. That caveat doesn't cover accidental damage however. From his present job he deals with a lot of stuff about copyright, and he is of the opinion that publishers are d**kheads, and consumers are stupid.