Fair enough, Chris, but while using VLC or handbrake for personal use may not make the powers that be happy, it hardly constitutes stealing. Cheers, Donna On Dec 29, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> skype: gerry.cook1 >> email: [email protected] >> >> On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:45 AM, "Kliphton" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> Kliphton Senior >>> (Email&iMessage) [email protected] >>> (Twitter&Skype) kliphton72 >>> (Personal blog-read at your own risk!)http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com >>> (Life Journal) kliphton.wordpress.com >>> (face book) http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group >>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
