Technology claims to thwart DVD copying

dog · Feb 18, 2005

Globe and Mail said:

Technology claims to thwart DVD copying

Thursday, February 17, 2005 Updated at 12:06 PM EST

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A new technology from Macrovision Corp. claims to block virtually all known methods for making unauthorized copies of DVDs.

The company's RipGuard DVD, launched this week, is designed to thwart cracking programs that get around the encryption system used in standard DVDs.

Macrovision also claims a related system to be used with RipGuard can foil attempts to make analogue copies of DVDs. Such copies are made by connecting a video recorder to a DVD player's video and audio output jacks, a method that previous DVD copy protection software has failed to prevent fully.

Attempts to copy-protect DVDs and CDs have often been plagued by hardware compatibility problems or are easily thwarted using something as simple as a black marker or by holding down the "shift" key while accessing the content.

DVDs fitted with the new Macrovision technology do not require new software or hardware to be played and should be compatible with nearly all existing DVD players and DVD computer drives, the company says.

Whether Macrovision's new technology works as well as the company promises remains to be seen, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research in New York.

"The question is partially how well it works, how compatible it is, and how difficult it will be for somebody to find a way around it, if that's even possible," Mr. Gartenberg said. "The more secure you make something like this, the greater risk you run of incompatibility."
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Kye-U · Feb 18, 2005

AnyDVD will probably find a way

Interesting...

"Where there's a will, there's a way"

dog · Feb 18, 2005

-Or- DVD Decryptor -Or- DVD Shrink ^_^

I don't know why the industry is hell bent, on stopping us from creating Legal Backup Copies.

Kye-U said:

"Where there's a will, there's a way"
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Amen to that.

bigc73542 · Feb 18, 2005

If they can record it with the macrovision on it it can be rerecorded with it on there, just give them a couple of days. The thing is that if I buy a DVD I want to have the right to burn a backup copy and if they make it where I can't do that they have sold me my last DVD. I can always wait till it comes out on satellite and burn a backup from there.

bigc

dog · Feb 18, 2005

Ya, with PVR's and standalone DVD recorders, combined with the digital quality of satellite and HDTV on demand Movies ... that most certainly will be a really viable option.

I'm with you BigC, the day I can't make a backup, will be the last day I ever buy a DVD again.

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