Johnathon Meichtry wrote:
If your DVD-ROM drive in your PC has the DVD logo on it then I imagine
you are using an official licensed DVD player and the manufacturer
should have paid the approriate royalties to the DVD licensing group.
Licensed with the DVD FLLC (DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation -
http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp and
http://www.dvdfllc.co.jp/nolise/dvdlogo2.htm ) but not with the DVD CCA
(DVD Copy Control Association - http://www.dvdcca.org/ and
http://www.dvdcca.org/css/ ). The DVD CCA license is the one required
to play back CSS-encrypted material. (Considering how many licenses a
DVD player requires, it's amazing they're affordable at all. Especially
when you consider some of those licenses mean nothing. The DVD FLLC is
licensing the use of the DVD Format/Logo for material that complies with
the DVD format established by the DVD Forum. But, the DVD Forum is a
/self-appointed/ administrator of the DVD format. Wouldn't it be nice
to vote yourself in charge of something and start charging license fees
for the use of that something.)
The software you use to decrypt and play it is a different story
altogether i.e. legal vs. illegal use of deCSS etc.
And the use of deCSS is only illegal (in the US--and unlicensed in other
countries (which may mean illegal in those countries, too)) because
deCSS is not a DVD CCA-licensed software product.
There is also a very very big difference between ripping DVD's to put
in your own Myth library and ripping to share with everyone else.
Ethically, yes. Legally (in the US), it's still a federal felony
offense because you are circumventing technological measures designed to
protect copyrighted material--a direct violation of the DMCA. Too bad
ethics have little to do with legality.
My advice is not to be shy and aggresively rip all your DVD's and
get them into your Myth library as it totally changes the whole
experience. But never share them and make sure the computer where you
host your ripped mpgs are totally cut off from the net i..e show
intent that you are doing it for the right reasons.
If you remember that you own the physical media but not the content
and to always look out for the interests of the copyright holder then
you pretty much can't go wrong. Thats my 2 cents worth anyway.
Good advice, but it doesn't change the legality of the act... ;) Of
course, I've never played a DVD on my Myth box because doing so would be
illegal, but if I had, I would agree with you that it makes watching DVD
movies a better experience because my Myth box gives me full control
over playback (including timestretch, post-processing quality, picture
correction, etc.) and the picture I get on my 67" 1080p TV is^H^Hwould
be much better than that I get from any other DVD player I've ever seen.
Horray for mplayer/mencoder/vobcopy/decss/mythtv and all the other
fantastic tools that have totally changed the way my children view all
their DVD's "on-demand" in any room of the house.
Here! Here!
Johnathon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Adeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:14, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Alex Vishnev wrote:
>Thanks for the advice. I did not know that MADAGASCAR was DRM
protected.
Technically, any CSS-protected DVD is DRM-protected, and decrypting
that
DVD on anything other than a licensed DVD player is a federal felony
offense in the US (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)...
Mike
Civil disobedience. It worked for our founding fathers (subsequently
made
illegal by our "elected" officials).
Steve
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