Copyright fight heats up Ruling against maker of DVD-copying program caps busy week

[crackerjacker]

well theres always dvd decrypter which you can find at afterdawn.com


its a little to late even with this ruling because there are so many software programs out there that are either free or shareware to back up your dvds.

hmm why shouldnt people back up there dvds anyways. if the dvd scratches up you have to buy another one. that is not logical. hmm
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and heres the story for this topic.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/21/PIRACY.TMP

[Digispeed03]

Rulings of this sort kill me...Once again, in an over-extended effort to kill off potential piracy, a judge has short-sightedly killed off distribution of what, in my opinion, is a GREAT app for the masses of users who had no intent of illegally distributing the content of their personal DVD collection. What about the hordes of movie buffs and hint...hint...PARENTS(!!) who have paid more than enough money for DVDs simply wanting to protect their investment? As a parent of four and soon-to-be six-year-old (next Tuesday) daughters, I'm here to tell you that all of the vigilance on Earth will not stop a child or careless family member (wife?) from occasionally scratching, dropping or "finger-printing" a $20+ (on average) disc. I admittedly used DVDXCopy to back up my kids more than ample Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks (Shrek, Toy Story I & II, Nemo, too many others...) collection and feel that I saved an ample amount of cash by not having to refill Best Buy's coffers. As stated the above comment, freeware for backup exists. I guess it's time to re-intall DVD Shrink.

[begoodbebad]

It was bound to happen. What took them so long?

I suppose it matters because the fact that this application existed placed a lot of doubt in a lot of peoples minds about the power of the DMCA and the rights of the consumer. Now we know.

In practical terms it isn't so important. Definitely many more people will have downloaded dvdXcopy from p2p networks than purchased it. This is one distribution that the courts can't really stop...are 321 going to pursue DMCA cases against Sharman/Metamachine etc and their users for distributing their illegal software? Yeah right.

For consumers all that will happen is that the ones who kidded themselves they were doing something legal will have to wake up and think about what this particular law is for and if they feel inclined to comply... and why should they? No one is ever going to be prosecuted for using this software unless they have a "legitimately" purchased copy, serial number and all, and they use it to copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission. It's pretty obvious that anyone making a lot of releases probably won't be dumb enough to use anything except a cracked copy.

For me there are better options anyway. I used dvdXcopy a few times and it's ok, certainly fast, but I get better results with AnyDVD combined with Nero Recode 2, amongst others.

[que-em]

I thought 321 had protections to keep people from making multiple copies of DVDs; thats one reason I passed them over. I guess that still isn't good enough for the MPAA. Glad I don't use it. I guess the MPAA has never heard of SmartRipper, DVDdecrypter, CladDVD, vstrip, or DVDshrink.

[begoodbebad]

I thought 321 had protections to keep people from making multiple copies of DVDs; thats one reason I passed them over. I guess that still isn't good enough for the MPAA. Glad I don't use it. I guess the MPAA has never heard of SmartRipper, DVDdecrypter, CladDVD, vstrip, or DVDshrink.

The copy protection in dvdxcopy only prevented you making another copy from the copy when using dvdxcopy again....take your copied DVD, use Nero or anything else and you can make multiple copies by burning an image of the copied DVD to your hdd then burning that image to DVD....so all 321's talk about copy protection was just so much hot air, more a kind of legalistic trick than a true attempt at complying with DMCA. But it was nice of them to try anyway :gj