I just bought a new RCA dual vhs to dvd machine which works fine for my own tapes from tv. My problem is when copying movie vhs (about 30 of them) which won't copy (pops up with "video is copy protected".
Any way of getting around this? Some of these tapes are 10-12 years old and i'm afraid they may get outdated and break the tapes.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Google it......

http://hometheater.about.com/od/hometheatervideobasics/qt/qtvideocopy.htm

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100804211749AAQaEH6

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/725379

...and many more...

This problem is solved for a long time
I can recommend one firm which can solve it. I have found here such site http://xdimax.com/grex/grex.html.
They have a device - GREX, I heard that with its help it is possible to block protection DVD and satellite tv-channels and to write down transfers on the dvd.