"Does anyone know of a free Blue ray copier so that I can create DVD copies of my Blue Ray movies?"
The Copy part just removes DRM & puts the files on your hard drive -- you'd likely be better off with a Ripper. Several of the companies that are on GOTD from time to time, like WinX, have free offers for their Blu-Ray Copy &/or Ripper apps, especially around the holidays -- I've picked up a few that way after seeing them advertised on sites like dealnews.com, & expect there will be another spate of these offers around Easter -- & a few have basic Blu-Ray Copy apps that are always free, though often ad supported. Videohelp lists quite a few [though they *generally* tend to skip the Chinese companies] http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/decrypters-bd-hd-dvd . IMO DVDFab, DVDFab Passkey, AnyDVD HD, & MakeMKV have the best rep, & the DVDFab & AnyDVD apps have 30 day trials -- note that MakeMKV is ad-ware. Passkey & AnyDVD work by installing drivers that bypass DRM on the fly, so DVD &/or Blu-Ray discs appear normally. DVDFab is basically one app where you unlock features by registering them -- pay so much, get a license key for the Copy portion, & once the trials have expired that's all it'll do -- pay more & the key you get will unlock the Ripper portion also.
If you used a Copy app, once you've got access to the .m2ts files containing the audio/video [they're like the .VOB files on a DVD], you can leave things alone, stick the audio/video in another sort of file [e.g. MKV], or convert them to another format, e.g. smaller AVC video in MKV files, create a DVD, transcode to DivX etc. The best choice is determined in this case by the amount of horsepower your laptop has, & how you're going to store the video. If your laptop can handle regular Blu-Ray playback [1080p video usually in AVC format], just stick the folders with the copied Blu-Rays on an external drive & you're done -- easy enough to test once you've copied your 1st Blu-Ray. If the laptop's horsepower is lacking, or you want to store the audio/video on DVDs, then you've got to convert the Blu-Ray to something else. If you just want to make the Blu-Ray smaller, e.g. so it'll fit on a DVD, there's a bunch of apps like BD Rebuilder -- http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/blu-ray-to-blu-ray-avchd .
AVC/H.264 video is the preferred choice nowadays, But, test 1st, & at different frame sizes -- decoding/playing AVC is hard work, often depending on special hardware support being built in, usually as part of the graphics display hardware. The reason I suggest testing different frame sizes is that often you'll find a smaller frame video will play much smoother with no noticeable visual difference. If AVC's a chore on your laptop, &/or you find it acting like a vampire with your laptop's battery, mpg2 is tremendously easier to play, but it's also the hardest conversion from Blu-Ray -- that's where DivX [or the very similar Xvid] come in... they're not as easy for or on your playback hardware as mpg2, but it's Much easier to get there. Many of the video converters that are either always free over at videohelp.com, or that appear on GOTD & similar, can well handle the conversion from Blu-Ray [or the unaltered Blu-Ray audio/video in a MKV file] to AVC or Xvid, & that's what the Blu-Ray Rippers are designed for -- the Rippers have the added plus that you don't need a Blu-Ray Copy app.
The problems with converting Blu-Ray to mpg2 [& DVDs because they use mpg2] are: 1) most of the software, especially Rippers, produces really relatively poor mpg2 video, 2) Many of the software tools you can use may drop frames &/or lose audio sync, & 3) if you want to put your video in DVD format you often need a separate app to handle that end of things. For the easiest high quality Blu-Ray to DVD conversion [though it still won't be the best] the only software I can recommend would be Roxio's suite, & it's not free. Step one you'd copy the Blu-Ray or use Passkey or AnyDVD, then use the free BluRip or similar to put the existing video into a MKV file, the audio into usually DTS [sometimes AC3 depending on the Blu-Ray], & optionally subs into .sup format. There are quite a few free apps that'll turn your DTS into AC3, .wav, or MP3 etc., while BDSup2Sub converts Blu-Ray subs to DVD subs. Step2, import the MKV & audio into Roxio's video app, creating your mpg2 file -- if you're not including the subs you can jump from there to Roxio's DVD app, creating the mpg2 file there with the advantage that you don't have to worry about whether it'll fit or not. If you want to include subs you'll have to split the mpg2 file Roxio gives you into separate .m2v video & audio files, then import the .m2v, .sub, & audio into the free version of Muxman to create your DVD layout, which you can test & burn. That said, there are easier methods &/or apps, some may even be one or a few click solutions, but because of the lower quality & potential problems with dropped frames & audio sync I can't/won't recommend them.
"Also any free players?"
Loads of those http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-players ... Apps like the Macgo player [that was just free on 2 sites within a week] work with video DVDs &/or Blu-Ray on the disc or on your hard drive -- I like the free VSO player & SMplayer, though like most all free players they won't handle DRM -- but if you want to play the menus & stuff the same as with your Blu-Ray player you'll need something like PowerDVD or the player that comes with Nero [what I use]. VLC is great if you've got a single file, but many Blu-Rays have over 100 .m2ts files with the video split between *Some* of them, so if all you did was copy the Blu-Ray to your drive, VLC would not be my 1st choice. [BTW VLC (including the mobile version) will play Nero Digital (AVC) video, displaying included subs.] The home cinema version of Media Player Classic has a ton of tweaks available to get the best playback out of your hardware.
