DVDFab HD Decrypter
In March 16 DVDFab HD Decrypter was the second HD-DVD Backup application that hit the internet.. DVDFab HD-DVD by Fengtao Software claim to backup a HD-DVD movie in less than an hour and promising full Blu-Ray support pretty soon. Here are some specifications.
It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, Macrovision, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying.
Changes in DVDFab Decrypter 3.0.8.6 final :
- New: Added audio/subpicture preselection feature.
- New: You can let DVDFab preselect specific language of audio/subpicuture. Ideal for "Main Movie", "Customize" and "Merge".
- New: Updated language files.
- Fix: Some extra content will be removed in "Full Disc" mode, when copying some copy-protected DVDs, like "Cinderella III" and "Open Season".
- Fix: Preview problem on Windows Vista.
- Fix: A problem that more than 6 sources cannot be opened, now the limit is 64.
- Fix: A problem that LPCM audio cannot be converted in "DVD to Mobile".
- Fix: Several minor problems.
Changes in DVDFab Decrypter 3.0.9.0 beta :
- Change: Significantly reduced the time to open DVD.
- Fix: Several minor problems.
Changes in DVDFab HD Decrypter 3.0.9.0 beta :
- New: Added support for HD-DVD.
- New: Copy HD-DVD to hard disk in "Full Disc" mode, in less than one hour.
- Change: Significantly reduced the time to open DVD.
- Fix: Several minor problems.
Advanis Inc.: Americans Demand Cheaper Movie Downloads
79%
of Americans who are downloading movies do so illegally
despite access to subscription based services.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 12, 2007) - US consumers are still downloading movies illegally despite the growing availability of subscription based movie download services according to a study conducted by Advanis Inc. Subscription based movie downloads have grown in prevalence with companies like Apple Inc., CinemaNow, MovieLink and most recently Wal-Mart offering movie downloads for a fee.
Yet 79% of those downloading movies are still doing so illegally, according to the study and is estimated to be costing the industry $598 million.
"The industry can respond to this stubborn core of piracy in one of two ways," said Phil Dwyer, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Advanis. "It can spend its time and resources pursuing the pirates, and attempting to get them to change their ways, or it can put those same resources into accelerating the adoption of these services by the early mainstream consumers, who are more inclined to behave legally."
"The experience of the music industry, and the evidence of our research suggests there is a hardcore of illegal downloaders who are unlikely to change their behavior. The industry would be better advised to focus resources on migrating new, and legally inclined consumers on to these services."
Downloaders Look For Deals
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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 12, 2007) - US consumers are still downloading movies illegally despite the growing availability of subscription based movie download services according to a study conducted by Advanis Inc. Subscription based movie downloads have grown in prevalence with companies like Apple Inc., CinemaNow, MovieLink and most recently Wal-Mart offering movie downloads for a fee.
Yet 79% of those downloading movies are still doing so illegally, according to the study and is estimated to be costing the industry $598 million.
"The industry can respond to this stubborn core of piracy in one of two ways," said Phil Dwyer, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Advanis. "It can spend its time and resources pursuing the pirates, and attempting to get them to change their ways, or it can put those same resources into accelerating the adoption of these services by the early mainstream consumers, who are more inclined to behave legally."
"The experience of the music industry, and the evidence of our research suggests there is a hardcore of illegal downloaders who are unlikely to change their behavior. The industry would be better advised to focus resources on migrating new, and legally inclined consumers on to these services."
Downloaders Look For Deals
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BackupHDDVD DMCA Notice Clarified
Since HD DVD's protection is not being decrypted, there's been some debate whether simply re-implementing AACS in an alternative manner, as outlined in the AACS guide, is a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). Nevertheless, it was reported last week that SourceForge.net, who hosted the open source program, removed it per a DMCA notice.
There are some interesting pieces of information stemming from this news that were a bit unclear. It's been mistakenly reported that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) was the organization that sent the notice. However, this is not the case. Instead, it was the AACS LA organization. Additionally, since SourceForge.net is considered an ISP under the DMCA, they are protected by the safe harbor provisions and are only required to remove the allegedly infringing material.
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PowerDVD AACS key found, AnyDVD supports Blu-ray
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AACS cracked again: WinDVD key found
02/25/2007 16:38 Permalink
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Blu-ray Disc has now outsold HD DVD
HD DVD had a headstart on Blu-ray sales because of its earlier launch. However, in late December, following the Nov. 17 launch of Sony’s Blu-ray-enabled PlayStation 3, the Blu-ray Disc began to catch up in unit sales, according to Nielsen VideoScan data. Blu-ray has the advantage of more major studio support.
All of the majors, save Universal Studios Home Entertainment, support the format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Lionsgate and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment exclusively support Blu-ray.
Ken Graffeo, the executive in charge of the HD DVD effort for Universal Studios Home Entertainment, said, “Given that the life-to-date title sales ratios are close to 1:1, and given that Blu-ray has a 5:1 ratio right now on the hardware side due to the PS3, why aren’t Blu-ray software sales outpacing HD DVD by a similar ratio? “In fact, HD DVD players continue to have an attach rate (life to date) that is more than five times that of Blu-ray players.”
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Apple and Cisco settle.
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First HD DVD Rip movie online
It's not a surprise to see the first HD DVD Rip online, it was a matter of time since muslix64 figured out the way to bypass the Advanced Access Content System or best known as ACCS. The Oscar Nominee "The Departed" directed by Martin Scorsese was the first movie to be share online by "online pirates". Now that HD DVD and Blu-ray content protection is compromised. With the help of open source and commercial applications like Slysoft AnyDVD HD is getting easier to everybody to backup a high definition movie. We are going to be looking around to find new titles that probably will appear some time soon online. (TnD Stuff)
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Piracy robs Los Angeles
Bootlegged items cost nine sectors 100,000 jobs and
$5.2 billion in sales in 2005, a report finds.
Pirates are pillaging Los Angeles' economy.
At least that's what a publicly funded study to be released today concludes, making the case that bootleg DVDs, CDs, prescription drugs and other merchandise such as handbags cost nine industries across Los Angeles County more than 100,000 jobs and about $5.2 billion in lost sales in 2005.
Conducted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the study lists the motion picture industry as accounting for about half the losses — $2.7 billion — followed by the recording industry, which sustained $850 million in losses, according to the report.
"Every dollar lost to piracy represents wages lost for the hardworking families that make the Los Angeles entertainment industry the envy of the world," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement.
As the study's authors acknowledge, the numbers are little more than educated guesses about an activity that is inherently difficult to track. Purveyors tend to avoid government surveys, and data are typically scarce or unreliable. Analysts have noted, for example, that someone buying a pirated DVD on a street corner may not necessarily have done so in lieu of purchasing one at a Best Buy.
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Pirates are pillaging Los Angeles' economy.
At least that's what a publicly funded study to be released today concludes, making the case that bootleg DVDs, CDs, prescription drugs and other merchandise such as handbags cost nine industries across Los Angeles County more than 100,000 jobs and about $5.2 billion in lost sales in 2005.
Conducted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the study lists the motion picture industry as accounting for about half the losses — $2.7 billion — followed by the recording industry, which sustained $850 million in losses, according to the report.
"Every dollar lost to piracy represents wages lost for the hardworking families that make the Los Angeles entertainment industry the envy of the world," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement.
As the study's authors acknowledge, the numbers are little more than educated guesses about an activity that is inherently difficult to track. Purveyors tend to avoid government surveys, and data are typically scarce or unreliable. Analysts have noted, for example, that someone buying a pirated DVD on a street corner may not necessarily have done so in lieu of purchasing one at a Best Buy.
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The Pirate Bay Introduces Oscartorrents
Oscartorrents.com is a torrent site completely dedicated to Oscar contending movies. The site's left column is broken down into the typical Oscar categories - Best Movie, Best Actor in a leading Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role - with the corresponding torrent files linked with each section.
The movie industry has been particularly aggressive against piracy involving Oscar-contending films, and this move by The Pirate Bay appears to be very provocative. However, the site has some interactive features for the community, such as the ability to vote on a film's merits.
Oscartorrents.com almost has an authorized movie/music store feel - save for the anti-establishment literature on the front page. Each torrent has a commercial screen shot with a description of each torrent offered. The site also challenges the movie industry to the time-honored, "can't beat em' join em' " adage.
"To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that OscarTorrents might annoy you -- but contain your righteous indignation for a while, and think: we're only linking to torrents that already exist. Face it: your membrane has burst, and it wasn't us who burst it. Your precious bodily fluids are escaping.
"You haven't beaten us, so why not join us?"
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SlySoft releases AnyDVD HD beta
AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software.
AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features, including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings. It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc, or prevent 'PC-friendly' software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD.
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Pirates strike again!!
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Pirates of the Multiplex
02/13/2007 13:24 Permalink
Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going
after the popular Pirate Bay Web site for illegal
distribution of video files. But if Hollywood wants to
stop online pirates—who cost the industry some $7
billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat
them.
I
was a reluctant convert, to say the least. When I got
the call from my old friend Richard back in late 2005,
he sounded far too enthusiastic about the latest
Internet gimmick that was going to "change my life."
Richard, you see, is prone to great enthusiasms, and I
was not particularly disposed to listen to his ravings
about some Web site called
UKNova,
which supposedly let him download all kinds of amazing
British TV shows completely free of charge.
I relented and signed up for UKNova membership. The site functions as a "torrent tracker," a skeletal database that allows users to locate and share digital files with other users. Unlike some previous peer-to-peer content-sharing programs, the files are not located on a Web site or taken from any single source; they're shared among members in the form of tiny digital fragments that are eventually reconstituted, like a completed jigsaw puzzle, as a single file on your desktop. The operation—which incidentally makes it difficult to sue members of a site like UKNova—is enabled by an ingenious little software application called BitTorrent, a paradigmatic advance in file sharing that has engendered many variants since its 2002 advent.
Loath as I am to admit it, UKNova did change my life—at least as far as my viewing habits are concerned. After downloading free BitTorrent software, I could use UKNova to procure—slowly at first—television shows that would have hitherto obliged me to beg British friends and relatives to record them for me on VHS (remember tapes?) and send via airmail. The unalloyed thrill of watching all this downloaded Brit-TV stuff easily outweighed the nagging shame of staring at a computer screen for hours on end.
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I relented and signed up for UKNova membership. The site functions as a "torrent tracker," a skeletal database that allows users to locate and share digital files with other users. Unlike some previous peer-to-peer content-sharing programs, the files are not located on a Web site or taken from any single source; they're shared among members in the form of tiny digital fragments that are eventually reconstituted, like a completed jigsaw puzzle, as a single file on your desktop. The operation—which incidentally makes it difficult to sue members of a site like UKNova—is enabled by an ingenious little software application called BitTorrent, a paradigmatic advance in file sharing that has engendered many variants since its 2002 advent.
Loath as I am to admit it, UKNova did change my life—at least as far as my viewing habits are concerned. After downloading free BitTorrent software, I could use UKNova to procure—slowly at first—television shows that would have hitherto obliged me to beg British friends and relatives to record them for me on VHS (remember tapes?) and send via airmail. The unalloyed thrill of watching all this downloaded Brit-TV stuff easily outweighed the nagging shame of staring at a computer screen for hours on end.
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Lionsgate Movies Now on iTunes
SANTA
MONICA and CUPERTINO, California—February 12,
2007—Lionsgate
and
Apple® today
announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available
for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store
(www.itunes.com) starting today. iTunes customers will
be able to purchase blockbuster Lionsgate films like
“Terminator 2,” “LA Story,” “Basic Instinct,” “The
Blair Witch Project” and “Dirty Dancing” and more than
150 titles coming to iTunes this month. The iTunes
Store has become the world’s most popular online movie
store, with a catalog of over 400 titles.
“We’re delighted to offer these incredibly popular
Lionsgate films on iTunes, and look forward to adding
even more films in the future,” said Steve Beeks,
president of Lionsgate. “iTunes lets users download
these wonderful films to watch on their computer, TV or
iPod, so movie fans can take their favorite Lionsgate
films with them anywhere.”
“The iTunes Store is by far the most popular online
movie store in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice
president of iTunes. “We’re thrilled to be adding this
phenomenal collection of Lionsgate titles from
Hollywood’s leading independent studio, including such
blockbusters as ‘Terminator 2.’”
Lionsgate’s renowned collection of movie titles
available on iTunes in the coming weeks include
legendary action adventure films and thrillers such as
“Total Recall” and “Rambo,” indie classics such as
“Monster’s Ball” as well as perennial favorites such as
“Chaplin” and “The Boys From Brazil.”
The iTunes Store features the world’s largest catalog
with over four million songs, 350 television shows and,
with the addition of Lionsgate, over 400 movies. The
iTunes Store has sold over two billion songs, 50
million TV shows and over 1.3 million movies, making it
the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie
store.
Lionsgate is the leading independent filmed
entertainment studio and the Company is a premier
producer and distributor of motion pictures, television
programming, home entertainment, family entertainment
and video-on-demand content. Its prestigious and
prolific library of more than 10,000 titles is a
valuable source of recurring revenue and a foundation
for the growth of the Company’s core businesses. The
Lionsgate brand is synonymous with original, daring,
quality entertainment in markets around the globe.
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