On Jun 5, 2012, at 16:49 , John Robinson wrote:

> Out of town Bill, sorry I'm late.
> 
> Under Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, etc. you could use QuickTime or some 
> program like SnapZPro to make a recording of something you wanted to keep for 
> your records.

I think you still can, unless it is something that has DRM hooked into it.

> With LION the OS automatically renders the screen either blank or places a 
> checkerboard square pattern on your monitor.  Nothing can be recorded and 
> this is all handled by Lion.  According to the SnapZ guys they have no 
> control for it's scrambled before it gets to them to record. 

I just tried this with SnapzPro, both for a still shot and for a movie, and 
both were fine. I see from looking around on the web that the problem is with 
taking a screen capture of something which has DRM, like a DVD being played 
with the DVD player.

There were some explicit instructions for using VLC to snag things off of DVDs 
here:

  https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3207660

The discussion is a bit aged, but it might still be relevant.

> Maybe someone could write a program to change this but since it is written by 
> Apple and built into Lion it may be a challenge.
> 
> I often record investing interviews and store them under the appropriate 
> title or person being interviewed.  I don't intend to distribute, sell, or 
> whatever I only want it for my own personal use.  I will keep one machine on 
> S. Leopard due to this and the Quicken issue.  Hopefully one day both these 
> issues will be resolved.

It'll have to start with DRM in general.

Kinda bothers me when ads say something like 'Harry Potter and the Seven 
Dwarves---Own it today on DVD', because it really should be 'License it today 
on DVD'...

Bill

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