Movie studios score victory against DVD-copying software maker - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The owner of a company that offers DVD-ripping tools has been fined $30,000 for six offenses that violated Antigua’s copyright law. The pursuit of Slysoft’s Giancarlo Bettini, though, has been led by major Hollywood studios and their technology partners. Bettini has long been a target for the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator (AACS LA), the body that develops and licenses the copyright claims used on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. It is led by powerful entities like Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft, and Intel, among others. Yet being in Antigua, Bettini had been able to avoid the grasp of the giant firms. In a 2013 World Trade Organization ruling, Antigua was allowed to ignore US copyright law to recoup lost revenue from a US-imposed trade blockade against the West Indies island that curbed its internet gambling services. AACS has pursued legal action against Slysoft to block its software, yet since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is impertinent overseas, AACS has appealed to Antigua for help. Specifically, AACS has pointed to Antigua’s Copyright Act of 2003, which has anti-circumvention clauses. The law says it is an offense to manufacture [I]"any device or means specifically designed or adopted to circumvent any device or means intended to prevent or restrict reproduction of work, a phonogram or a broadcastor [sic] to impair the quality of copies made.”[/I] The law allows for only criminal action against an offender, meaning AACS needed Antigua to pursue charges against Bettini. And that is what happened, marking the nation’s first conviction under the 11-year-old law. Bettini was found guilty in an Antigua & Barbuda court of six charges under the law and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 per offense, [URL="http://torrentfreak.com/slysoft-dvd-ripper-owner-found-guilty-in-criminal-action-140403/"]according[/URL] to TorrentFreak. He was required to settle two of the fines right away. The other four are due at the end of April. Bettini faces six months in jail for each fine he fails to pay. [I]“[SlySoft was] clearly violating Antiguan law, and the court ruled accordingly,”[/I] said AACS attorney Bruce Turnbull. Slysoft offered TorrentFreak little in response, as the case is pending. [I]“Subsequent to the recent ruling against Bettini, his lawyer Dane Hamilton QC immediately filed a notice of appeal so the judgment has been stayed,”[/I] Slysoft said. AACS now sounds ready to use the Antigua decision – and a separate AACS case against DVDFab which resulted in the seizure of that company’s US-based assets – to put the screws to Slysoft’s business partners. [I]“[The victory against Slysoft] gives us a concrete decision to take to others who facilitate SlySoft and their business. We can say to those who do business with them: ‘This is an illegal activity,'”[/I] AACS’s lawyer told TorrentFreak. Slysoft, a local company that provides DVD and Blu-ray backup tools, is considered a “rogue site” by the Office of the United States Trade Representative.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://rt.com/usa/slysoft-copyright-hollywood-fine-241/[/URL]

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Fuck the movie industry and their draconian DRM. AnyDVD HD is basically the only way you're going to watch BD movies in HD on your computer without having to pay the "HD Tax" from having to buy ever newer versions of HD content players like PowerDVD. Cyberlink forces obsolescence by not providing new decryption keys to older versions of their software, so you're forced to pay sometimes over $100 to get a new version of their player. Successive new players have zero new features, just a basic GUI update and new decryption keys. And PowerDVD is more or less a rootkit. You don't own your computer while it's running and you're forbidden from performing certain actions or using certain types of displays without not being able to watch your BD movie or having it degraded to DVD quality.

That's kind of stupid no? That's like fining sony for making a vcr recorder.

[QUOTE=AK'z;44447879]That's kind of stupid no? That's like fining sony for making a vcr recorder.[/QUOTE] At this point in the game, capitalism has overridden any common sense and blinded them of any public opinion. They just see money.

[QUOTE=pentium;44447961]At this point in the game, capitalism has overridden any common sense and blinded them of any public opinion. They just see money.[/QUOTE] I was just about to say the people who led the lawsuit are run by companies like warner brothers and microsoft. They can grease A LOT of palms.

Personally think at this point makeMKV is a much more elegant solution than dealing with anydvd. Decrypts the mpeg AV stream and saves the raw decrypted stream into an mkv file. Watch with VLC or whatever, 0 quality loss.

i strongly feel that physical media is going to become more of a niche in the following years, considering how easy it is to buy movies online now. i bought ridley scott's alien on amazon streaming and it took me all of one minute to do.

Not to mention the program will be mirrored at hundreds of sites from now on and it's likely the source code may 'leak' so the community can continue updating and supporting it. The movie industry's war against consumer choice and freedom is a very one sided battle. [editline]3rd April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Ownederd;44448156]i strongly feel that physical media is going to become more of a niche in the following years, considering how easy it is to buy movies online now. i bought ridley scott's alien on amazon streaming and it took me all of one minute to do.[/QUOTE] The only problem with digital distribution is that at any point the rights holders can effectively take your license to watch the movie or the service's license to host it and you're basically fucked out of whatever you paid with no recourse. Whereas pirates have access to the movie forever, regardless of rights or licensing disputes, and are able to use it on any device that supports the format it's encoded in, and on as many devices as they want at any time, not to mention they can then lend the copy to a friend without having to worry about logging into some sort of account. It really doesn't matter what they do at this point, piracy will always offer the better deal and a large majority of people who pirate often purchase whatever they downloaded later if it's worth their money.

[QUOTE=Ownederd;44448156]i strongly feel that physical media is going to become more of a niche in the following years, considering how easy it is to buy movies online now. i bought ridley scott's alien on amazon streaming and it took me all of one minute to do.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen ANY time soon. There's a vast number of people who purchase high quality blu-rays which you can't get from a shitty web version.

I personally go for cassettes.

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;44447790]Fuck the movie industry and their draconian DRM. AnyDVD HD is basically the only way you're going to watch BD movies in HD on your computer without having to pay the "HD Tax" from having to buy ever newer versions of HD content players like PowerDVD. Cyberlink forces obsolescence by not providing new decryption keys to older versions of their software, so you're forced to pay sometimes over $100 to get a new version of their player.[/QUOTE] I wish it was possible to watch Blu-Ray movies easily on my PC. A few times, I've ended up just ripping the movie to a 20-30GB MKV and then watching it instead of trying to deal with shitty player software. I like Blu-Ray for the quality, but I just wish the shitty DRM wasn't a part of it.

[QUOTE=AK'z;44448272]I'm sorry but that's just not going to happen ANY time soon. There's a vast number of people who purchase high quality blu-rays which you can't get from a shitty web version.[/QUOTE] Also, you can't wrap data.