decrypter? discontinued?

[AGK_J]

ive heard the dvddecrypter is discontinued or something? if so, which is the newest version i should get? or if not, what program should i use now?

[setarip_old]

The newest version publicly available is v.3.5.4...

[jggimi]

A search of the forum should have found http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=95485

In addition, please see Doom9's June news archives: http://www.doom9.org/Old_news/june05.htm

[AGK_J]

i did the search...the first link is about 5 pages sayin the same thing but all outdated as its from june 5th...i figured maybe dvddecrypter came back by now, maybe under a diff. name, or that autogk creator released somn i missed out on...and the june news archives, theres a million things on that 1 page...didnt find the word decrypt in it and i dont know what half of the tool's descriptions even mean :( so neways guess im stuck with 3.54 for now :)

ps. keep up the good work yall! :)

[jggimi]

June 11:First of all an update on the DVD Decrypter situation: Unfortunately the reports are all true. So in case of future ArccOS versions, DVD Decrypter will no longer be able to offer an out-of-the-box mechanism. However, a while back, PSL lists were introduced, and it just takes the proper PSL file to beat future versions of "structure protection" (from an engineering point of view we're not dealing with protection but perversion of the specs). Unfortunately, that only leaves DVD43 (which isn't updated very often), and the commercial AnyDVD and DVD Region+CSS Free. In both cases, legal action against them is unlikely due to their geographical location.
Since the domain dvddecrypter.com was turned over to the company that issued the cease and desist order, I strongly suggest that if you are using DVD Decrypter, go into the settings, click on the Events tab and uncheck "Check For Program Update" at your earliest convenience as the current owner might collect IP addresses for nasty purposes.June 12:Finally, since I was "blessed" by an official information email that the company that shut down DVD Decrypter development demanded be sent, I can let the cat out of the bag: it's not the MPAA, it's not Sony as initially rumored. It's Macrovision - the company that has given the world video signal corruption since the 1980's. The email states that we're dealing with a case of copyright infringement, which I find hard to believe. On a DVD, there is no Macrovision signal. There is a flag in the bitstream that tells your player to turn on the signal that screws the automatic gain control on your VHS recorder, and DVD Decrypter can remove that. But it's not like DVD Decrypter is the only program to do that, there are a great many programs out there, some of which cannot even decrypt DVDs, that can remove the Macrovision flag. And it's not like the flag matters when you make digital copies, you could simply keep it. For instance if you're creating a DVD±R from a store bought DVD, if you don't touch the flag, you couldn't make a VHS copy of your DVD copy.
I'm unaware the DVD Decrypter would be able to add the Macrovision flag to a ripped video. That would be something else since in order to use Macrovision ACP, you have to pay a license fee, and without paying it, you'd be committing some sort of violation (likely a patent violation since ACP is patented). And Macrovision has sued at least one other company over this issue in the past: 321 Studios. That case didn't go to trial because 321 Studios eventually shut down operations under pressure from a previous lawsuit by the MPAA. And as far as the DMCA is concerned, a simple bit in a stream cannot possibly be considered an effective copy protection mechanism as defined under the DMCA, unless you have no idea about technology (obviously most lawyers fall into that category). This is even more laughable than using ROT-13 "encryption" (and still, ROT-13 was used as "encryption" by Adobe).