RE: A sad time for those with video media servers...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well thankfully Elaborate Bytes' (Elby) CloneDVD will pass unaffected as it
doesn't actually bypass any copy protection and will only allow the
manipulation of unprotected DVD data.

Their "companion" application (AnyDVD) is produced by a
subsidiary company
of theirs called SlySoft and that is the program which is going to get them
into trouble if anything as that is the one that does the business of
removing CSS and macrovision etc. :-(

I can well understand companies (such as Sony) wishing to protect their
intellectual property and I'm happy enough for them to do that as long as
they're happy enough to replace any of my kids DVDs that he ends up
scratching that normally I would either make a backup of and let him watch
those (keeping the originals safe in my DVD changer) or would extract to
the
media server and he would watch off there...

(/me rides off into the sunset on a very high horse...)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 12 June 2005 11:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] A sad time for those with video media servers...
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> It serves as a timely warning to all other developers of
> similar legal tools to make them open source ASAP.  If that
> had been the case with DVDDecrypter, development could have continued.
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> It's not enough to be right in this world, you have to be
> rich and right to take on a bully like Sony :-(
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> Mal
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 12 June 2005 09:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] A sad time for those with video media servers...
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> http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6501.cfm
- Wondered why
> I couldn't get to his web page.
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> Looks like the sphincter police are cracking down ... Today
> DVD Decrypter but AnyDVD and CloneDVD must be high on the
> list for next as they're high profile "retail" applications.
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> Phil
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