RealDVD Ripping Software Trial is Underway
RealDVD Ripping Software Trial is Underway
Posted 04/27/2009 at 6:26am
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Hot on the heels of the Pirate Bay trial, which just recently ended (not without considerable controversy), another trial is just now getting started. This one, however, involves RealNetworks and its RealDVD ripping program, a $30 piece of software that has drawn the ire of the Movie Picture Association of America (MPAA).
At the heart of the issue is RealDVD's ability to make digital copies of DVDs to a user's hard drive while still retaining the DVD-copy protection. The process even adds a further layer of DRM to the files it rips, so as far as RealNetworks is concerned, the program doesn't run afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Naturally, the MPAA vehemently disagrees, even going so far as to say the software should be called StealDVD instead of RealDVD. Even more troubling for the MPAA is the RealNetworks' plan to develop DVD-saving software for manufacturers of DVD players. Facet, as it's being called, would allow Toshiba, Sony, and other companies to sell players capable of copying DVDs and save them internally. A prototype capable of storing about 70 movies has already been made, and it's expected that similar devices would sell for around $300 or less.
"The movie industry wants people to buy DVDs an so do we," said Bill Way, VP and general counsel of RealNetworks. "They have a real problem with piracy, and we are not that problem. I don't think our product will make the problem one iota bigger. I think it gives people an opportunity to make digital copies of their movies in a legal way."
Right or wrong, it will now be up to the courts to decide.
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December 09, 2010 at 7:17pm
DVD manufacturers work a lot on their data center security because they want to avoid piracy and keep their income and profits. But such a software that allows you to make digital copies of a DVD will also allow a higher piracy risk. I don't think that the courts will allow the use of this software.
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There’s also a secondary element to the dispute, which may come up in the trial. The licensing rules of CSS, the copyright system used to protect DVDs, has recently been changed to say that the original disc must be physically present in whichever machine is being used to view it. That would clearly be breached by RealDVD, but Real Networks believes it’s not valid to change the licensing rules unilaterally. Exe Files
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aldude505
April 27, 2009 at 12:08pm
With the legislation against the Pirate Bay only a couple weeks old the courts are now trying to move quick and hard to remove the rest of our digital liberties. Now if I go out and buy a DVD and I want to make a back up of that movie, why shouldn't I be allowed? I legally obtained a copy and yet I am still made to go the route of RealDVD or AnyDVD to back up my movies. If nothing else these DRM schemes make someone want to pirate more so they can get an unemcumbered piece of video. I don't know how much more it will take before even the die hard DRM people will finally say enough is enough. Hell even iTunes got the picture...
jcollins
April 27, 2009 at 8:34am
I still don't get why I would use RealDVD to get some DRM encumbered copy of a movie vs some other DVD ripper.
nekollx
April 27, 2009 at 9:09am
the REAL(dvd) question is
if you are just getting "some DRM encumbered copy" how is MPAA even have reason to complain
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