Best burning software?

[Porkchops]

The DRU500A comes with RecordNow, but I'm not sure if it's 3.0 or 4.5 (it's the burner I bought, I'll check when I get home from work).

So, the trick is to use the Data burn method, rather than duplicate a DVD? I haven't had a chance to mess with it yet, I Just barely got it installed before I had to run to work, popped in a DVD and was told "Can't copy this due to copy protection" or something, but that was on the "Make a Copy of a DVD option".

So what's the best method of copying a game/movie? Copy files manually to the HD then create a data disk?