Handbrake doesn't circumnavigate the copy protection on commercial DVDs, though, does it? It works slowly because of Apple's crummy drives. I can copy a DVD in about 15 minutes on my PC!
Forgot i had Handbrake installed on my Mac so ripped i ripped some discs this afternoon, however even with i7 2.4GHz cpu and 16GB ram it's still taking 20 minutes a disc. After three discs i lost the will to live!