This topic pops up every so often on this list and basically (beyond
those who just don't care about being legal) it comes down to the US
DMCA law or Digital Millennium Copyright Act. On previous media you had
Fair Use rights to, say, transfer that fancy new CD to a tape so you
could play it in that still working Sony Walkman. So what the fine folks
did this time is to not only encrypt the new hot DVD format but lobbied
to make mere breaking of the 'protection' a criminal offense. In other
words the quite handy Fair Use rights you used to have got stomped on by
Congress. This is what makes it confusing. Other countries with more
sanity have recognized that people just might want to make a backup,
convert the format or otherwise transfer the bits they bought to another
medium. In the US though you're out of luck trying to do anything of the
sort in a legal manner. Well, there is one legal manner called the
"analog loophole" where you could aim a video camera and mic at a TV
screen to make a recording of the DVD you paid for with real cash money.
You would not have defeated the copy protection and then you could
exercise your fair use rights. Nobody ever does this and the bag of hurt
known as BlueRay made sure to fix that as well by ensuring everything is
encrypted all the way to the display device, so no grabbing a clean feed
from your player and dumping it to your hard drive, but I digress.
Anyway, now you know why apps like RipIt from the little app factory
have to skirt the issue by being based out of Australia. At bit of
recent news about renewal of the non-expemtion for circumvention in the
DMCA by Library of Congress in October:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121025/15065220831/dmca-exemptions-announced-exemption-dvd-ripping-rejected.shtml
You can Google the rest.
CB
On 12/29/12 8:29 PM, Gerry Cook wrote:
Hi try fairmount app its free well it works for dvd decripting with
dvd remaster.
cheers gerry have a great day
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On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:45 AM, "Kliphton" <[email protected]
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So, what apps do people use to remove copyright protection from DVD’s
so it can be ripped? I heard VLC can do this, but never knew how to
do it.
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