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DVDs not just rip protected
A friend of mine ran into this problem when trying to make a legal copy of a DVD of The Outsiders for backup purposes:
http://whatsonhdtv.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
ArccOS is a DRM which, according to Sony (who developed it), adds a layer of protection in conjunction with CSS to prevent "1:1 duplication" as well as ripping.
http://www.sonydadc.com/americas/news.news3.go
I guess motion picture content owners are not limiting their measures to protecting only "ripping" anymore. How can a law-abiding consumer make a copy for archival purposes anymore? Although there are reports that Sony has discontinued the use of this technology, Wikipedia provides this list of recent DVD releases with ARccOS protection: "Hostel" (18 April 2006), "Underworld: Evolution" (6 June 2006), "The Pink Panther" (13 June 2006), "RV" (15 August 2006), "Lucky Number Slevin", and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (5 December 2006), as well as current releases of "Flightplan".
Oh well, my other friend bought a pirated copy of Flightplan in a Beijing market and said it was no good anyway.
Posted by at February 21, 2007 11:55 PM
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