DVD copy protection strengthened

[akrako1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4266977.stm

DVDs will be harder to copy thanks to new anti-piracy measures devised by copy protection firm Macrovision.

The pirated DVD market is enormous because current copy protection was hacked more than five years ago.

Macrovision says its new RipGuard technology will thwart most, but not all, of the current DVD ripping (copying) programs used to pirate DVDs.

"RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer," said the firm.

Macrovision said the new technology will work in "nearly all" current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard.

[Gurm]

Sony's new "rip protection" was beaten... in... less than a day.

This is old news. Not only are they unclear on how it works, they're predicting consumer incompatibility. It'll never fly.

[dvdguy4]

Its already here in the states.This new Arccos protection. If it can be made then it can be copied.[/img]

[Gurm]

Also, I just read their "technical definition".

They claim it will "crash ripper software" by "utilizing the UDF format".

WHAT does THAT MEAN?

Sony at least was clear - their Arccos puts intentional errors on the disc.

Plus this new thing from Macrovision will stop "97% of rippers by market share". That means it'll stop COMMERCIALLY SOLD rippers. How many of those are there? DVD2One and DVD XCopy? DVD XCopy is old news. EVERY new protection stops it, just because it hasn't been updated in years.

[waheed]

old news:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=258158&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

and a locked thread on the same topic:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=258163