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Sony to use Ripguard?
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StanH1000
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13. March 2006 @ 10:15 |
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Sony may have given up on ARccOS protection
Posted by Dan Bell on 13 March 2006 - 07:04 - Source: Forbes
Piper analyst, Gene Munster filed a report on Friday, that indicates Sony is contemplating Macrovision RipGuard instead of their own ARccOS protection scheme for DVD. The Macrovision protection is already being used by The Walt Disney Company.
The analyst said he expects Macrovision to have a better RipGuard showing in the first quarter than the last quarter owing to strong releases scheduled for Disney for the rest of the quarter.
In addition, Munster noted that Sony appears to have ceased using its own ARccOS DVD security technology in February.
"We believe this change could be positive or negative for Macrovision," the analyst said. "It could be positive if Sony has made a decision that its ARccOS technology is ineffective and is now looking for a different technology to replace ARccOS. It could be a negative sign, if Sony has decided that anti-ripping technologies, in general, are not worth the cost and effort."
As for the reason behind the decision, it's anyones guess. Perhaps it is as the article states, simply the cost of constantly maintaining and updating such measures that is being considered. Definately, we know that ArccOS has not been completely effective against those determined to duplicate or rip discs to their hard drives.
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13. March 2006 @ 10:38 |
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How nice of Sony, one less protection out there. As for Ripguard I don't think that is much more effective than ARccOS.
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13. March 2006 @ 10:46 |
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Indeed they were pretty one in the same, causing many of the same problems, and being bypassed with the same processes...Can't wait for the next copy protection...wasting my time pfft O.o
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13. March 2006 @ 10:58 |
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also tons of news posted in this thread..
also this is posted there,Reply to thread: Sony to use Ripguard?
VERY,VERY HOT READS, I Would Read The News In This Thread
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/281991
Class action lawsuit filed against music industry
3/13/2006 11:48:16 AM, by Nate Anderson
People have complained about the price of recorded music for decades. It's always seemed a little fishy that there was no price competition between the labels, and that CDs have always remained more expensive than cassettes, even though the discs are now dirt cheap to make. When music went digital, why did we see so few price points for individual tracks? Today, why are all the major labels simultaneously making noise about wanting Apple to offer variable pricing? The whole situation fueled paranoid claims about industry collusion and price-fixing that later turned out to be totally justified.
You may remember that the industry was busted for off-line price-fixing a few years back. It was also outed (again) for a major payola scandal last year. This year, the industry is under the microscope for its pricing practices related to digital music. The feds have already launched an investigation and New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer is making his own inquiries.
Like a shark smelling blood in the water, the latest round of investigations has attracted the lawyers. Prominent California attorney William Lerach has now launched a class action suit against the labels on behalf of consumers who have allegedly been overcharged for music. This in itself is not particularly surprising given the ongoing federal investigation into the same topic, but the lawsuit does contain some interesting tidbits. For instance, the suit claims that the music labels fought tooth and nail against the arrival of online music stores, and that they did so by launching their own poorly-conceived (on purpose) online ventures.
The suit also alleges that the record labels sought to shut down online music pioneer Napster at the same time they were introducing their own joint ventures to sell online music. MusicNet and pressplay "were not serious commercial ventures, but rather attempts to occupy the market with frustrating and ineffectual services in order to head off viable Online Music competitors from forming and gaining popularity after Napster's demise," according to the suit.
If this lawsuit gains any traction, it could be a major headache for the music industry, because similar suits could wind up being filed in countries all over the world. Given that many of the price-fixing allegations center on Apple's iTunes Music Store, the labels could find themselves in trouble in more than twenty countries. After all, intense dislike of getting screwed is not just an American phenomenon.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060313-6368.html
also this is posted ther
Do copy protection firms encourage piracy?
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/281991
Sony loses another round in DualShock lawsuit
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/281991
New optical disc standard aims to provide high-definition at low cost
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/281991
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 13. March 2006 @ 11:08
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13. March 2006 @ 11:37 |
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Wow, that's kind of ironic to me. Honestly, DVD Decrypter alone can still rip any dvds with RipGuard protections, but not ARccOS, according to my experiences. Of course, unless you're the few "advanced users" that's using "PgcEdit + PSL plugins + DVD Decrypter + VTS", then this is another "unstoppable" method regardless if it's ARccOS or RipGuard.
Best of lucks to all.
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13. March 2006 @ 14:41 |
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According to slysoft ripguard was broken quite awhile ago by accident, it was not until it officially came out that they realized they had broken it. ARccOS does cause problems but especially when they have it coupled with puppetlock as was on The Fog. Decrypter still will handle the majority of movies, and those with harder protection can still be gotten around with the free programs, none of which are exactly new. Hollywood puts out a lot of bad movies, but they figure what they loose at the box office can be gained through DVD sales, if this is true then they are not hurting for money as they claim, and there product must be overpriced if they are having a good profit margin. It is hard to buy the industry's poor act when there is nothing to show that this is true.
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13. March 2006 @ 15:17 |
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They are lurking and waiting for new VISTA windows and the new HD DVD recorders and BluRay. Then the game will be on again. We are winning for the present.
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