Is MacTheRipper Obsolete?

[albloom]

This got no responses in almost a week on the MacWorld
forum. It got dismissed from the MTR forum after 43 views,
again with no responses. Let's try here.

Does anyone have experience with Fairmount? I saw it on
the October 27 versiontracker list,

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30207

and I was intrigued.

It is a tool that works with VLC to decrypt a commercial
DVD. Free. The documentation seems a tad vague to me.

For giggles, I put one of my commercial DVDs (the new
Manchurian Candidate which sucks taods compared to the
original but I digress), launched Fairmount, launched
VLC (which may or may not have been necessary), then
dragged the disc's VIDEO_TS onto Toast7 to copy onto
my other drive. Worked fine.

I suspect I could have just dragged that file onto my
HD had I only one optical drive.

Could be a replacement for MacTheRipper, but I'm not
sure.

[goat]

I tried it on CLICK but it did not work. It copied to the hard drive but was unable to get a working copy. With this same DVD MTR worked fine ..... (MTR 3, kicks ass)
So I would say for easy DVD's it will work fine but the new encryption ..... ?
And if thats the case, just use MTR !!!

[albloom]

Thanks, Goat. As I said, I just grabbed a random DVD for
testing. I don't even have one of the new beastly-protected
ones. They have to be better than they've been lately for me
to fork over the money.

[lawnman]

I answered you at RipDifferent. I told you that MTR is more up to date than Fairmount.