Place your bets...

The General · 10-11-2006, 04:44 PM

... on how long the new DVD restriction method will take to be fixed.

A few hours? A few days? Few weeks? Never?

Make your bet.

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AnyDVD which effortlessly bypasses Protect DVD-Video.

Seems it has already been fixed, yet this is the solution for Windows which doesn't help me. That and it isn't free.

HAVOC · 10-11-2006, 05:20 PM

wow... that's a brilliant way to keep people from pirating movies. Now, even those who actually BOUGHT THE FRIGGIN' movie, like, me... can't watch them on my media center PC... One of the main reasons I built the friggin thing.

Money grubbin' sons of da beaches...

evelmunkey · 10-11-2006, 05:23 PM

I think it will in afew days.

Trotter · 10-11-2006, 05:26 PM

Considering that my two computers are the only way we can watch DVDs, I have to say that that sucks royally.

I don't copy DVDs. If I like a movie, I buy it straight out. So something like this is actually an attack on my rights to even watch a movie.

The General · 10-11-2006, 05:30 PM

^ Yeah, my computer monitor looks better than my TV (STILL haven't gotten a new TV) so I watch my DVDs (the ones that I pay for, which is all of them) on my computer.

But it only says Windows is going to have trouble with it.

HAVOC · 10-11-2006, 05:35 PM

I actually buy all my movies. I've got a membership to columbiahousedvd and i've gotten a ton of movies for virtually dirt cheap. I enjoy creating a collection.

If movie publishers start using this crap.... I will seriously start a revolt and petition.

The General · 10-11-2006, 05:42 PM

They already did, CSS, this is just a new type of DRM, it will be fixed (notice I say fixed, not cracked) and you will be on your merry way.

Besides, all the DVDs you have will still be the same, it's not like they will change and become protected with the new protection scheme.

TheMajor · 10-11-2006, 05:56 PM

Just extract the contents of the disc to your HDD, problem solved. You can then play it directly from your hard disk or burn a new DVD using a standard file system.

Windows Vista also uses this file system for their discs I think.

The General · 10-11-2006, 06:00 PM

But the menu system shows up as 0 bytes, so you would copy files, but not all the data necessary to copy it.

And I'm pretty sure that if you could extract the contents then that means you could just play the DVD ...

talldude123 · 10-11-2006, 06:14 PM

Few years.

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