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iluvendo

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7. March 2008 @ 00:44

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Found this at Macrovision's website

http://www.macrovision.com/webdocuments/Rippers_pyramid_large.jpg

Also this statement:

RipGuard
Protecting DVD Content Owners from Consumer Piracy

RipGuard makes it possible for content providers to make their products

available to customers in a timely and cost-effective manner while

significantly reducing the creation of illegal copies for piracy.

DVD content protected with RipGuard dramatically reduces the ripping of

copyrighted content. DeCSS software that breaks the CSS encryption

found on DVDs is widely available. You can?t depend on it to protect your

valuable assets. RipGuard protects against most DeCSS ripping

procedures, making it impractical for all but the most determined to

violate their license agreement.

Pyramid of Determination
While no encryption method is 100 percent foolproof, the goal of a good

security solution is to deter the majority of violators. Between 85 to 95

percent of all consumers lack the patience and the technical know-how to

break through the extra layer of protection RipGuard provides, causing

them to give up on making illegal copies. Often, casual users end up

purchasing the DVD content they were trying to copy.

Only 5 percent of users have the knowledge and determination required to

break through the RipGuard protection and decrypt the underlying CSS.
These individuals represent a small subset of the total population and are

not likely to buy content at any cost. RipGuard deters more than 90

percent of all users, leading to a more fair return on your investment.

Macrovision RipGuard helps content providers ensure:

Complete Quality Care

RipGuard protects the integrity of your digital content while maintaining

compatibility with PCs and both portable and standalone DVD players.
The RipGuard system has been THX? Verified, ensuring the audio and

video quality of the original digital content. There is simply no consumer

penalty to protecting your DVD content with RipGuard.
Complete Compatibility with Today's DVD Players and PCs

Macrovision guarantees DVDs protected with RipGuard will play on all PC

and consumer electronic DVD players.
Our DVD certification process includes testing and certifying every DVD

device before and after market release, resulting in pristine playback of

RipGuard titles on every player?today and tomorrow.

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"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
Ferengi 82nd rule of aqusition

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attar

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7. March 2008 @ 06:12

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So they are saying that they will supply you with an expensive solution for a 95% non-existant problem, the problem 5% being those pesky people who think they are entitled to make a legal backup copy of their own property.
Create an imaginary problem and cash in on 'fixing' it.
Meanwhile Sony sells encrypted disks which are not to be copied on their badged DVD burners on their badged media - talk about having it both ways..

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varnull

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7. March 2008 @ 07:16

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Give me a rip-guard protected title.. and we will see how secure it is when it is run in a machine which doesn't know what DRM means.

Will it stand the

# vlc dvd:/dev/dvd@1 --sout "#standard{access=file,mux=ps,dst=/home/user/file.ps}"

test?? I very much doubt it.... muahahaha

That's without even getting clever and doing a # dd <disk> --sout "#standard{access=file,xxxxxxxxxxxxx -edited 4 or 5 tools-don't want to get aD into trouble- /user/file.iso"

Which I sometimes need to do just to watch a rental dvd. They haven't got it yet have they??

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iluvendo

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7. March 2008 @ 15:21

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Originally posted by attar:
So they are saying that they will supply you with an expensive solution for a 95% non-existant problem, the problem 5% being those pesky people who think they are entitled to make a legal backup copy of their own property.
Create an imaginary problem and cash in on 'fixing' it.
Meanwhile Sony sells encrypted disks which are not to be copied on their badged DVD burners on their badged media - talk about having it both ways..

Bro, Greed knows no bounds.

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"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
Ferengi 82nd rule of aqusition

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