WWC has always offered ripped and encoded DVD content, although there was an extra price for that back in the day.

there's a great advantage to ripping your own or getting it ripped, and webmasters are discovering it more and more. usually when companies rip the content, they don't give you the actual DVD. back a few years when 320x240 was the normal video size, lots of guys got their ripped DVD content at like 320x240 at around 350k. these days, that's pretty crappy and i know a lot of webmasters who wish they'd gotten the DVDs.

ripping your own DVDs or having someone you know and trust do it allows you to control the size and quality of the videos. one guy i know got some broker to do his ripping and encoding and the content looked like shit. don't know why - i've seen those same movies looking good. so control over your content is, imo, pretty important.