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DVD Decrypter -- gone forever
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 6 June, 2005
Not really a good way to start a new week -- this just came in via our news submit (thanks Shoey):
Hello world,
I've got some good news and some bad news. Let's start with the good.... (tumble weed passes by)Ok, and now onto the bad: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 is the last version you'll ever see.We hoped this day would never come, but it has, and I can promise you, nobody is more gutted about ... [ read the full article ]
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9thdoctor
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7. June 2005 @ 05:25 |
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mytchm you may be missing the point of dvd back up. ok so they make dvd's $10 each, your dog eats it or your kids scratch it beyond repair, get $10 to buy another making your $10 into $20, but if you make a back up of it then it only costs $1 to replace. Has anybody tired cladDVD.NET 3.56 its not a bad ripper ive used it for about a month and its been 90% success rate. tyr it goto www.clonead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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papabois
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7. June 2005 @ 05:28 |
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This is my first ever time posting on a forum (brought about because of the catastrophe with DVDD).
It like the death of another world icon (such as JFK, Princess Di, Pope John Paul II).
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kroneight
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7. June 2005 @ 06:04 |
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sorry! I lost to add important words in the first line in my last comment. That was "I only.......etc. etc,HAVEN'T I? MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE AND LOVED IT."
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madmouse
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7. June 2005 @ 06:53 |
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its a sad sad day....
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akkuma
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7. June 2005 @ 07:14 |
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Damm i hate to see that, its all bs! hollywood does not lose any money if i copy a movie rented from blockbuster, i paid my money to rent it. its not like the dvd is released at the same time with the theatre release, its months or a year after! the name of the game is options people, without it your phone bill would be 100. cable bill, light, etc options with different companies forces them to lower their price to appeal to you. this is control as to where you'll have no choice but to pay 12.00 to see a movie whether good or bad, and force you to buy a dvd using dna or some crap they are cooking up. Either way you have but one option because some millionaire wants a way to make sure all the money related to a movie he gets a cut on all sides. its looks like they are wiping out all competition, then the shall give us our choice.
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7. June 2005 @ 08:25 |
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Well I say that it should be $8 a DVD ($3 each additional in a set) So if you buy a tv series with 5 DVDs in it it would cost you $22 USD.
Now if they want to rule world, which it seems they do, They can do this. If they make it impossible to back up our stuff then they should come up with an agreement that if your disk becomes damaged then all you have to do is send the defective disk in for a replacement. Your only cost should be shipping. This is regardless if the disk is in once piece or 5000. They get the original back and send you a new one.
Of course that will mean you may be weeks without the film but it is a compromise. Alternative 2 is to somehow arrange a worldwide boycott against all DVD sales for a period of 2 months. This will send a message to them that we are fed up. They think the loose money off back ups, just imagine how much they will lose if we did a 2 month boycott. They would be pissed and would not be able to arrest anyone. This of course will take a few months of planning to pull off and we will have to suffer without the new movies for that long. Heck we could even extend the boycott to include all movies in the theater.
If the boycott happen then we would have to bombard them with letters explaining our action and what we are retaliating against. Mention in the note that if they do not stop their BS in the 2 months then we can arrange for a longer period of time. I am not talking out of my ass here. They prove over and over they can walk all over us. We support them by every movie or music sale we make. Why should we support the very ones that want to take our freedoms away. The only way to get to bastards like these people is to hit them hard in their wallet. I'm sure we can live through two months of not purchasing any new DVD for 2 months. Buy all the used ones you want. Hollywood makes no money off used sales.
Funny they should in turn make it illeagle to sell your media used since they make no money off it. Just think about it Guys/Gals. Would you support the action I have proposed?
-Del
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7. June 2005 @ 09:20 |
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Just think about it Guys/Gals. Would you support the action I have proposed?
I definitely would, but I kinda doubt something so big could be organized successfully. BTW, does anyone know how well that media boycott in late April went? I think it definitely would have to be a couple months like you say for it to be noticed.
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Manu_DVD
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7. June 2005 @ 10:08 |
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DVD Decrypter, LUK, Good luck to a super programmer..
What comes next? many here have discussed AnyDVD, who as you may know are located in the lovely sunny Antigua, with their site currently hosted in the equally lovely Ireland.
How about Fengtao? their DVD "backup" programs arubaly rival AnyDVD. based in China.
This is gonna be interesting..and i agree that for now these companies will make a samll fortune.
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lazygig
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7. June 2005 @ 10:49 |
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If I buy an umbrella, rip off the top, and use it to stitch up an old windbreaker, am I doing something illegal?
I don't see how what we choose to do with a DVD that we BUY affects the liberal billionaires we bought it from. We already paid for their product, and as long as we are not selling copies to anyone else, we should have a right to do whatever the eff we want with it.
For our comfort, I'd like to point out that the hottest place in hell is reserved for the hypocrites.
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jwo62
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7. June 2005 @ 11:07 |
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liberal billionaires?
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akkuma
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7. June 2005 @ 12:02 |
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i'm with Mr_dell 100%
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Hegemonie
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7. June 2005 @ 12:57 |
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Yeah, sad news.
I will not add to the compliments.
But : stand up armies of immortals, grab pogrammes, download, use, copy.
They just can't get enough money, but strange thing, if you pay for a programme, hooo, well, you can use it and the programme lives on .......... it's money everywhere. Nothing else.
So one good advice : copy.
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Run4two
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7. June 2005 @ 13:00 |
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I am in complete and utter shock. The saddest day in a long time. I never saw this coming. I wish nothing but the best for Lightning UK and am sorry I never donated money for his efforts. We can only ponder what living hell he is going through.
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Quadratic
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7. June 2005 @ 13:15 |
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Please tell me this is a joke. I'm not reading this...
Decrypter was like my favorite burning program of all time :(
Farewell man. If you don't make another program, you have already given much to the DVD community.
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7. June 2005 @ 14:03 |
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Decrypter was absolutely the best ripping program available free or pay. Somehow, I'm not surprised that big money interests shut this guy down though. That's the way the world works these days. He who has the gold, makes all the rules and people be damned. Their God is the almighty dollar. Their bible is their monthly statement. Their goal? You will pay and pay and pay some more and you'll shut up about it. Anything else would be "communism" or some such nonsense.
Just like the recent Marijuana Supreme Court ruling, all this will do is strengthen the underground DVD movement. Beware the new technology however. I'm sure they're working on ways to legalize inspections of hard drives next overtly or covertly.
Big Brother is here. Welcome to 1984 21st century style!
Salude! LUK! You Sir, are a legend.. :)
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7. June 2005 @ 14:11 |
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you know what - it shows that a company , whether its S*O*N*Y or Ma*cro*vis*ion or whoever, with all their millions, more like billions, are afraid of one normal (but obviously extremely talented) individual from the UK (who has contributed so much to so MANY grateful people).
That shows that to feel so threatened by one person, they are greedy, technically inept, oh and did i say greedy. Good luck to Lightning for the future.
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Hegemonie
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7. June 2005 @ 14:13 |
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Just a few ideas.......
If we could all donate now for the proramme...
Couldn't the programme be registered somewhere in the world ?
If hosted on physical servers where it is legal to be hosted, then why not continue updating the programme? They're not gonna put cops behind all our computers ... Send your work to anyone, this anyone uploads, and we'll f1ck the world .
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mcfly982
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7. June 2005 @ 14:21 |
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Very sad news.
If all the "small" people just knew the power they had against all the "big" people if we just organized ourselves... It's called collective action people... Look it up. The possibilities are endless. We have all the power but don't know how to use it. We have to remember that most of the "big" people are big because of the small people; they get to rape us at will and we pay their bills and keep their businesses going.
If I was lightning UK.... I would move to another country (one that doesn't have laws about this stuff), change the name of "DVD Decrypter" to "Decrypt DVD" and start charging $$ for the software. I would pay for it and so would everyone I know. In no time, you'd have enough $$ to offset the price you paid for the move.
Of course, I am not a lawyer and I know nothing about international law.
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7. June 2005 @ 15:20 |
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Yes Cman. Room 6 is in our very near USA future. Mcfly982 hit it on the head. They make money off us small people. So what can we do about it? STOP BUYING THIER STUFF. Had to use caps there. As I mentioned above already. If I get enough intrest in this I will see what can be done.
-Del
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Guyy
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7. June 2005 @ 15:30 |
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Yes, this is sad news indeed...but somebody pls advise, does this mean the DVDD we already have on our system will cease to work after awhile??
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hijacker
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7. June 2005 @ 15:58 |
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It will be deeply missed by me.I would like to thank the follow people: The guy that invented the DVD burner, the people the invented the DVD player,the college students who bypassed macrovision,and Lightning UK for a bad ass program called DVD Decrypter.You program will be sorely missed.Also my up yours to Sony and MPAA and other assholes where ever you are.I feel Like I just attended a fueneral.This is some sad news.:(
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7. June 2005 @ 16:09 |
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@Guyy
It will only cease to work on DVD's that have new copy protection - ones that aren't even out there yet - but I'm sure the big players are furiously working to come up with them. Keep reading the boards you'll know when one comes out. The last one was Sony Arccos (which DDVD handles) starting with Resident Evil: Apocolypse
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jaehomo
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7. June 2005 @ 16:58 |
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why doesn't someone just make a clone of DVD Decrypter...its not a very big program at all....a good programmer could make a clone of it in like a week probably
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Tene
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7. June 2005 @ 18:04 |
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It seems such a waste for it all to go to nothing ...
Why don't you release the source under GPL? Or ... ahem ... someone *else* release the source -cough-, seriously other open source programs could really do with DVD Decrypter's source.
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7. June 2005 @ 18:16 |
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Tene has an idea. If the source was accidentaly released certain programmers could make use of it. Lightning, my best to you.
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