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Macrovision Aims To Stop DVD Rippers

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skyman8081:
I can understand the need for a good protection scheme.

e7ement brings up a great point actually.  In my experience, for every one person who is legitimately backing up DVDs for personal use, there are 10 who are burning rental DVD's or posting the rips to alt.binaries or to a P2P network.  The same can, unfortunately, be said for mod-chips in consoles, for every one who mods it to run Linux and XBMC, there are 10 who use it to run pirated games, and cheat on XBL and XBC.

Like it or not, sites like suprnova and lokitorrent were distributing copyrighted works without the consent of the original authors, which does violate Federal US copyright law.

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: Stryker ---his post says how it works doesn't it? they use a different encryption key for every title (dvds usually have a few titles), and a different encryption key every few minutes. current programs for copying them assume the same key throughout the dvd. all this will do is encourage people to make more sophisticated programs.
for me.
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding things but you don't have to decode data to copy it. When you copy something all you're doing is reading binary data from on piece of media and writing it to another -  the computer doesn't have to decrypt anything.

Stryker:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Perhaps I'm misunderstanding things but you don't have to decode data to copy it. When you copy something all you're doing is reading binary data from on piece of media and writing it to another -  the computer doesn't have to decrypt anything.
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 i dont believe they can do anything to prevent you from reading the raw data from a dvd and putting it on another. this isn't what they are trying to prevent though. they are preventing people from creating a video file of their dvds.

mobrien_12:

--- Quote from: Stryker ---i dont believe they can do anything to prevent you from reading the raw data from a dvd and putting it on another. this isn't what they are trying to prevent though. they are preventing people from creating a video file of their dvds.
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RANT MODE ON

If I pay good money for a DVD, and I want to rip some or part of it to a video (or audio) file for my personal use, there is nothing wrong with that.

But then the MPAA whines about how many biillions of dollars they are losing  and how they can't allow us fair use rights because that would also allow piracy.  This is crap.  Why do I need to suffer for piracy?  I'm the paying customer!

Stryker:

--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---RANT MODE ON

If I pay good money for a DVD, and I want to rip some or part of it to a video (or audio) file for my personal use, there is nothing wrong with that.

But then the MPAA whines about how many biillions of dollars they are losing  and how they can't allow us fair use rights because that would also allow piracy.  This is crap.  Why do I need to suffer for piracy?  I'm the paying customer!
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 why did you quote me before saying that? You talking to me? I don't agree with it, what gave you the impression that I did?

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