Your days of DVD ripping are limited...

[sleuth]

Macrovision Corp, yesterday unveiled a new technology touted to block 97 percent of the DVD-copying software used by Internet pirates, without interfering with a DVD's play ability or picture quality. Going by the name RipGuard, the system can be included in personal computers, DVD players and DVD recorders, to plug the digital hole through which unauthorized versions of DVD films can be easily copied on a computer and then "burned" to other discs or put online for downloading reports xinhuanet.com.

linkage: http://ployer.com/archives/2005/02/your_days_of_ri.php

This burns me up.
If I want to make a back-up copy of something I purchased, then I should be able to. If I'm agreeing to some license agreement that they include, then it should be available for reading on the *outside* of the box.

Oh well... I'm sure my pals in the IT world won't let me down. There'll be a work-around before it's even released.

 

[POOH]

97 percent

I'm in the OTHER 3%

 

[Lenny]

This what, the fourth or fifth undefeatable encryption program for DVD?

 

[Chasey_Lane]

linkage: If I want to make a back-up copy of...en do you "back-up" DVD's you have purchased?

 

[mainman]

How often do you "back-up" DVD's you have purchased?

He meant to say "pirate" the ones I rent from blockbuster...

 

[crabcake]

He meant to say "pirate" the ones I rent from blockbuster...

People do that?

 

[POOH]

I only ripped 4 DVD titles today.
and 4 tv shows
and the Grammys

 

[crabcake]

I only ripped 4 DVD titles today.

any good ones? maybe I'll give ya some DVDs to back those up to and I'll keep 'em in my safe for ya.

 

[POOH]

I thought about selling my HD with 200 gigs of MP3s (46,000 songs) on ebay to a person to "store my back ups" but I was not sure how that would go. I guess I would be buying a friend to store them in a seperate place in case my house burned down.

 

[vraiblonde]

dis is my first computer wats a DVD?

If you jump into every thread just to be stupid, I'm going to ban you. Fair warning.

 

[itsbob]

How often do you "back-up" DVD's you have purchased?

I think it wise to at least back up the ones you've rented from Netflix.. you never know when it's going to get bcak to the top of your queue so you can see it again..

 

[Bruzilla]

With a house full of kids I back up all my higher-cost DVDs and watch the copies. Nothing like cleaning up the living room and discovering that your latest DVD purchase is what made that loud cracking sound as you stepped on the newspaper, which someone tossed over the DVD on the floor, which was laying there because someone wanted to watch another movie and was too lazy to put it back in the case.