DVDDecrypter site down

[BobV]

I'm able to get to and download form the main download site.

[Baldrick]

from www.dvddecrypter.com ?

I have replaced the links in tools sections with mirrors.

[mobo57]

My windows are shuttered, my eyes are teared and the neighbors are bringing cassarols by.
Here is an article I wrote just two weeks ago about the whole issue.
RIP old friend

[BobV]

Like I said: what am i missing.. thanks

[Bix]

I looked through all the settings.

Obviously

Hey, I said it was a stupid question!

[Adub]

dude the site is down.
how are you accessing it.
How do you connect to the internet?

[e404pnf]

This is quite an obvious point but one that I think needs making as it seems to have been lost in most (but not all) of the post... Copyright laws vary from country to county.

I would think that its a fair bet that Lightning_UK is based in the UK and we have VERY draconian copyright laws over here. There is no right of "fair use" in the UK as there is in the USA and elsewhere. If you want a music track on CD in your living room, on tape in the car and as an MP3 for your iPod you need to buy three copies (similar to buying a software licence - you should only install on one computer). Its even illegal to record from the radio on to tape!

Obviously for these sort of examples people are never prosecuted, but examples such DVD Decryptor which circumvent copyright protect and allow duplication light up very strongly on the FACT radar (Federation Against Copyright Theft - http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/). I'm surprised (but very pleased) that action wasn't taken earlier.

We can only hope that this wont set a president for programmes such as AnyDVD or DVD43 etc, as they aren't based in the UK with our absurd laws.

- e404pnf

[Nilfennasion]

If I were able to program (ironic, given the twenty years I have been sitting in front of a puter), I'd recommend everyone start writing their own tools. Or better still, start reverse engineering DVDDecrypter and other such tools to write one's own improvements. They cannot stop you from running what you have created yourself. Yet.

[roma_turok]

I guess LIGHTNING UK! sold SOURCE CODE to "the company" instead release it, like Emule.

[handyguy]

If you can get to that site you're seeing the site as your browser cache so just clear that.

You can still download the lastest version from afterdawn. they ask if you're in another country other than the us tho.

[waheed]

I'm able to get to and download form the main download site.

Ive mentioned this so many times already. The site people are able to access are mirror sites. Its NOT THE OFFICIAL DVD DECRYPTER SITE ! ! !

Please click on the link Baldrick has provided and tell me if you can access it.

[HatchetMan]

the home page is easily accessible, but nothing else is

[OldGuy100]

I don't know what everybody's talking about.

I just downloaded the latest DvdDecrypter v3.5.4.0 from the link on the Tools section here 2 seconds ago. For the record, I'm using Firefox if that makes a difference.

RTFM, NOOB !

Try downloading it from that same link tomorrow, or the next day

Still there. 8)

[DTSL06]

"SOme compaNY " now has the home site for Decrypter so like the author's message, there will be no more updates so if u havent yet TURN OFF AUTOUPDATE. Paranoia: Some company can/may now see who is accessing the old site.

[sanjayk]

Whats going to happen to all the mirror sites still hosting DD. Will they be bullied down to remove it from their site also?

[BJ_M]

well it is slash.dot'd .... so must be getting some heavy traffic besides the usual rubber neckers

[Baldrick]

Macrovision shutdown DVD Decrypter.

Harry Potter sold around 30 million DVDs but didn't want to pay the Macrovision tax of about $0.05/DVD. 30 million x $0.05 = $1.5 million dollars. So this meant one could copy Harry Potter DVD to VHS and make a clean copy. Not anyone at all anymore does a DVD --> VHS anymore. Harry Potter (AOL Time Warner) proves how useless macrovision is with DVD --> DVD-R backups nowadays. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-938046.html

Sony didn't shut DVD Decrypter down because they admit ARcoSS is to prevent the clueless person attempting to make a legitimate backup copy and overall they suceed in that regard. Macrovision shutdown DVD Decrypter because they have a new DVD copy protection termed "Rip Guard" coming out and they don't want their protection cracked in a few hours by DVD Decrypter.
http://dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/160761

Macrovision gets around 55% of their revenue from licensing their DVD copy protection which is more than likely not being used by major studios anymore as people aren't into making analog copies. Their future is based on "Rip Guard" being effective so they used United Kingdom laws to shutdown Lightning UK!.

--anonymous

[BJ_M]

well --- goes to show ....

I thought ripguard would not work anyway for most older players and as such - would not be used much ...

[pantangs]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DVD_Decrypter

[BJ_M]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DVD_Decrypter

your point ?

[sunderland]

just face it the programme is gone there is other programmes use them.and 5 pages on it get a life people

[Denvers Dawgs]

lol....yet you still posted on the 5th page...funny could have just ignored it, and listened to yourself and got a life instead you joined us.....how ironic!

[lumis]

you just know the slysoft people are thrilled about this.. now if any new dvd protections come out, everyone will be turning to them.. and opening their wallets..

i hope ripguard dies a quick death..

if might cost me a yellow card, but this has to be said.

**** MACROVISION

[Darth Paris]

This sux. RIP DVD Decrypter.

[normcar]

So Sunderland, how pathetic is your life, when you use your valuable time to tell everyone else to get a life. The problem is not necessarily that this tool is going away, but that the entire concept of being able to backup your own DVD, so a small scratch does not ruin a $20-100 investment. For some TV shows which run $100 or more per season, if you scratch one of the disks, the only way to replace it is to purchase the complete $100 season. For someone like me who has well over 400 DVDs, this can add quickly to the bottom line. All I want is the legal ability that the US Supreme Court said I have, which is to be allowed to backup my own DVDs. The government and private organizations are quickly eroding your ability to use your own property for your own use.

[sunderland]

you can still back them up just that you will have to pay for it. but wont it be a small price to pay if you are backing up your 400 dvds.if you had to pay for it nobody would of been bothered that it had been closed down. thats what it boils down to people will have to pay for a new programme.

[waheed]

Ripguard shouldn't worry people much. Sooner or later, when it comes out, its going to be cracked, maybe not by Lightning UK, but by someone else.

For every encryption, theres a decryption.

[AuroEdge]

I'll point out that by using DVD Decrypter you would be breaking national and international law.

[normcar]

Using a different program will work until the next program gets shut down. Or until the hardware/OS prevents you from copying at some point in the future. The ultimate goal of these companies is 100% uncopyable DVDs and CDs. They may never reach the goal, but is the goal they want. Perhaps they should concentrate on making product people want to purchase.

The most successful companies use the adage that "the customer is always right", but the greedy ones use the opposite "screw the customer, I want more money". This usually (as in the case of DVD and CD sales) leads to less profit, not more. For examples see Wal-Mart vs. every music company. Wal-Mart can’t stop making money, it just drops in their lap, because they work to make the customer happy. Some may not like their corporate strategy, but few can argue the incredible financial success they have had.

[joeg04]

We can only hope that this wont set a president for programmes such as AnyDVD or DVD43 etc, as they aren't based in the UK with our absurd laws.

In January 2005, the German computer magazine C't has published an article about a new version of AnyDVD. This article contained a link to the homepage of SlySoft. A German first-instance court has decided, that publishing this link was illegal and specified the amount in dispute to be 500,000 €. See:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/58315