Dvd Decrypters

DVD Decrypter is a software application that can create backup disc images of the DVD-Video structure of DVDs. It can be used to image any DVD, but controversially it is especially useful for decrypting copy-protected movies. The program can also burn images to disc. CSS decrypting software (such as DVD Decrypter and AnyDVD) allows a region-specific DVD to be copied as an all-region DVD. It also removes Macrovision content protection, Content Scrambling System (CSS), region codes, and user operation prohibition.

Legality in the United States

As DVD Decrypter facilitates the removal of copy restrictions, certain uses may be illegal under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act unless making copies which are covered under the Fair Use Act. In countries without similar laws there may not be any legal restrictions.

On June 6 , 2005 , the developer (known as "Lightning UK!") announced via the CD Freaks website that he received a cease and desist letter from Macrovision. He later stated it was within his best interests to comply with the letter, and stopped development of the program. By June 7 , 2005 a mirror site was up, which allowed people to download the final version (3.5.4.0). On 27 November 2005 , Afterdawn.com, a Finnish website, announced that it complied with a letter received from Macrovision demanding that DVD Decrypter be taken down from its site. Shortly after, an original unofficial DVD Decrypter mirror site with no connection to Lightning UK ! appeared and is still operational as of December 5th, 2009.

Under United States' Federal law, making a backup copy of a DVD-Video or an audio CD by a consumer is legal under fair use protection. However, this provision of United States law conflicts with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibition of so-called "circumvention measures" of copy protections.

In the noted "321" case, Federal District Judge Susan Illston, of the Northern District of California, ruled that the backup copies made with software such as DVD Decrypter are in fact legal but that distribution of the software used to make them is illegal. As of the date of this revision, neither the US Supreme Court nor the US Congress has taken definitive action on the matter.

The software was still legally available due to many countries not having such restrictions, however, as of November 2005, Macrovision acquired the intellectual property rights to the software and started sending cease-and-desist letters to distributors on the grounds of copyright infringement.

On October 4 , 2005 , Lightning UK! continued the development of the burning engine used by DVD Decrypter in his new tool, ImgBurn.. ImgBurn, however, does not have the ability to circumvent copy protections of encrypted DVDs.

See also

• DVD ripper
• Smartripper
• Emicsoft DVD Ripper
• K9Copy
• HandBrake

References

1. ^ Cease and desist letter published at CD Freaks
2. ^ CD Freaks.com - Worlds largest digital storage community
3. ^ Slyck News - Macrovision Forces Removal of DVD Decrypter
4. ^ DVD Decrypter
5. ^ Judge: DVD-copying software is illegal 2-20-04
6. ^ http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7056.cfm

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