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Warner Bros. sued over stealing anti-piracy tech
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article published on 24 May, 2010
In an ironic twist, Warner Bros. has been sued this week for stealing an anti-piracy technology patent.
Medien Patent Verwaltung(MPV) of Germany is the company doing the accusing, saying Warner and Technicolor began unlawfully using the technology after it was shown to them in 2003.
The studio was shown the technology, which is "a method of marking films with a distinctive code so ... [ read the full article ]
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1. June 2010 @ 12:48 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I wouldn't know; I have never used it for anything but ripping; I turn it off the rest of the time. From what I understand, it does not remove HDCP...otherwise I would get a HDMI capture card.
AnyDVD HD does remove the HDCP requirement from the BluRay/HD DVD in your optical drive. See this post over at SlySoft.
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1. June 2010 @ 16:29 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
As for people stealing AnyDVD, that seems very appropriate; the strange thing would be paying for it; as that would be paying to pirate! I suspect most of their paying customers are people who just want to backup their DVDs, and are not pirates at all.
There is another reason for using AnyDVD_HD, that is because it makes all your hardware components work properly together. That DRM can stuff them up. Also, I believe there is less CPU usage with AnyDVD.
I wouldn't know; I have never used it for anything but ripping; I turn it off the rest of the time. From what I understand, it does not remove HDCP...otherwise I would get a HDMI capture card.
I usually leave it on as it does nothing but suck up a tiny bit of RAM (as do the vast majority of services that people mistakenly turn off).
Yes, I've had direct personal experience with that component business... in regards to playing legitimate rented BluRays. All the components are meant to be HDCP compliant but still won't work without said app.
It's strange, after your comment I turned off AnyDVD_HD and had a go at playing a few of my BluRay rips off HDD... they played fine, including the recent Avatar. However, District9 did not. Still, I have trouble playing that particular rip at the best of times anyway... I reckon my players might need a reinstall (bad update). So I conclude that's wrong, it has to remove the protections from the rip.
Never heard of a HDMI capture card, not sure what you'd use it for. Unless you don't have a BluRay optical drive in your poot. Do you only have a PS3 or something? Regardless, AnyDVD is just for optical disks only. Else your talking about recording HDTV... which I do all the time. Actually, two stations at once with the twin tuner PCI card I have.
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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FreddyF
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23. September 2011 @ 04:51 |
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Originally posted by dufas:
The movie industry has been stealing for years and years. Script ideas, royalties, blackmail, tax evasion, even outright theft of money has littered the industry's past. They have always lived and acted in their own low morality and self interest and expect everyone else to act in the industry's interest also. Sort of like the Mafia, "We can screw you but you had better not screw us" mentality..
Remember,.....The first Batman movie was, for a while, the highest grossing movie ever....but, through creative bookkeeping, it didn't even break even and not one cent of taxes was paid. Little tricks like start a new company that you own and have this new company do something like build an expensive set which you then rent to yourself then sell the company to your spouse at a loss then your spouse files the company for bankruptcy.The money, as far as accounting goes, gets lost but in reality, remains in your pocket without paying any taxes.. There are other methods they use all the time to give the illusion of a loss....
Oddly, the Government doesn't seem interested in trying to fix this problem and collect the trillions in taxes they are loosing from this obvious fraud that the industry brags about.
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FreddyF
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23. September 2011 @ 04:54 |
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23. September 2011 @ 22:04 |
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FreddyF, why do you have 2 posts in a row which is a forum rule violation?
12. Repeated posts to increase total number of posts is not allowed. Especially if your message is the last in the thread, edit it rather than post a new message.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487
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FreddyF
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24. September 2011 @ 06:54 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
FreddyF, why do you have 2 posts in a row which is a forum rule violation?
12. Repeated posts to increase total number of posts is not allowed. Especially if your message is the last in the thread, edit it rather than post a new message.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/2487
Sorry, the intent was not to increase total number of posts, I have not seen any advantage to that, I was only attempting to keep seperate ideas in seperate posts. I will delete one and avoid this in the future.
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