Before continuing review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCAThis is about the DMCA, or the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which restricts what is legal to do to DVDs/CDs.
The reason the legality of the situation matters is this question violated the terms of service of this website.
Though many people will eventually answer it and perpetuate a double-standard of law.
I appreciate that you have kids that ruin stuff, but that doesn't excuse you from following laws.