While most of the new-year celebrations are over now, our friends at LotSoft, Inc are still celebrating giving away free genuine licensed copies of their BDlot Blu-ray Ripper PC utility.

BDlot Blu-ray Ripper is a Blu-ray decrypting and copying tool for users to backup Blu-ray discs to their local storage. The versatile utility allows users to protect their favorite DVDs easily from cracking, scratching, other damages or loss, ignoring any mainstream Blu-ray protections, such as BD ROM Mark, BD+, BD-Live, UOPs, AACS, region code, etc., enjoy perfect Blu-ray DVD quality 1:1 backups with original Blu-ray movies contents (BDAV M2TS audio track, subtitle track, video track, and menu), deleting those annoying FBI and Interpol messages and useless subtitle or audio tracks, user can also transcode Blu-ray discs/backups to MKV, MP4 and other popular formats and watch these videos on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Samsung mobiles, tablets, as well as other popular portable gadgets.

There were days when Nero Burning Studio was the only easy-to-use option available to burn optical disc's, things have changed since then and today we have many excellent free options like Hamster Burning Studio, BurnAware, JetBee and Inscriptio, letting us compose and burn disc's with ease.

7Burn is yet another such simple to use freeware utility designed to work properly under Windows® 7 using the new IMAPI v 2 technology, the utility supports writing discs in following formats - CD-R, CD-RW, DVD ROM, DVD-RDVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-RW, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD-R DL Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW DL, HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RAM, Blu-ray DVD (BD-ROM), Blu-ray media Sequential, Blu-ray media, and Blu-ray Rewritable media.

SlySoft - creators of the famous CloneCD CD/DVD copying application has released a new software "AnyDVD HD" allowing users to copy Blu-ray and HD DVD discs, including decryption of Blu-ray and HD DVD movie content on the disc.