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It's somewhat sad that these idiots can't see that the very people they're hurting by doing this sort of thing are those that are buying their product.
After all, the "pirates" will always have ways to obtain Bluray's without their copy protection, so all they're doing is encouraging those that buy bluray's to download them instead.
Personally, for every single blu-ray I own, I've downloaded the rip, as it's more convenient (faster, and pretty almost guaranteed quality) than attempting to rip it myself.
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PatK
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Sad developments alright, and just after I read "The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that posting links is not the same as posting the actual content, but more similar to a footnote, thought we might have reached a tipping point. Guess the U.S. has the ring in their nose, it was a nice program, I guess I have to burn it.
Laughable this week was the copyright claim over Michelangelo's David, dead for hundreds of years, Italy wants their pound of flesh for the usage of that image.
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Well, at least they're still in business since they're operating outside of the US. Only their domain names and other US-controlled stuff is immediately affected. I've always been scared of their monkey logo, but I hope this doesn't put them out of business.
It's interesting because I didn't think anyone was really putting any effort into "cracking down" on DVD ripping anymore. Even if they ignore the fact that this only effects legitimate DVD customers (and only slightly), is it even worth the effort at this point? The cat is long since been let out of the bag when it comes to breaking DVD encryption.
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AnyDVD likely to be next target?
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What does this mean for Make Mkv?
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jjd-uk
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Won't do much good, all they need do is register with a non-US domain name provider, for example dvdfab.jp is still up, the greatest hinderance will be the withdrawl of direct payment processing by visa, mastercard & paypal but there's plenty of ways around that too.
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Yeah my next question is when will slysoft be targeted?
I got to have my anydvd. Great program. It is a shame when you pay for something, like a bluray,
and can't do what you want with it.
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jjd-uk
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The daft thing is that these programs are aimed at people who already own the disc's, so all it'll do is drive more people to download pirate versions. Unfortunately the movie industry seems to have learnt nothing at all from the experiences of the music industry and are making all the same mistakes.
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And home taping is killing music, apparently ;-)
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Piers
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The results of court issues like this are:
1) Pushing businesses away from the US, scared they might have a problem.
2) Making technophobes go and actually download content and not even bother with paying for it and ripping in the first place.
3) Hurting content creators due to possible loss of sales
4) Helping grow business in other nations which don't have archaic policies regarding digital media.
Speaking of archaic, there are far too many judges who have absolutely no clue how to even operate a BluRay player so can't possibly understand the complex parts of this case. A family friend is a judge (still wears the wig) and asked me if pausing a film would hurt the disc... my point proven.
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da-anda
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sigh, industry will never learn. It's far more easy to pirate a movie than to actually watch a bought BluRay with OpenSource software (and sometimes even commercial software which requires continous updates). Industry would be wise to change their distribution model if they want to fight against piracy.
