DVD Region+CSS Free never let me down. It already supports new Sony ARccOS protection. No doubt they will support RipGuild too.

BTW, DVDFab Platinum is another great product by Fengtao Software. It lets me copy any protected DVD perfectly without help of DVD Region+CSS Free.

Not that I condone illegally copying anything, but it is my feeling that the harder they try to prevent someone from copying their products the more it makes people want to copy them. Sony has their ARccOS copy protection which uses the fake bad sector method and that had been broken every time Sony releases an update. Ripguard will be no different. The fact that this new "prtection" will cause some DVD players not to play the movies is ridiculus. That is not fair to the consumer that has a perfectly good DVD player and the fact that it is a few years old should not prevent them from playing a movie.

skopas: it was david and goliath...

samson was the one who grew long hair the was blessed with superhuman strength as long as his hair was long...

as for this protection...

rent the movie, borrow the movie..watch it one time... odds are it aint worth the 45 cents for the dvd, and the 30 minutes of your time.

really.

Id just like to comment that there is also "hacks" for you home dvd players.I have a sony, model number dvpns315.I found a Region code and Macrovision hack for my model.check out this site for more info http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

yeah, videohelp.com is one of the best sites out there for, well, video help. lots of codec testing and results are on that website, as well as a DVD player media compatibility database.

DVD Decrypter can do it... just kidding, I got your hopes up didn't I? Anyhow, I'll be watching for afterdawns free download of the new decrypting software. I really hope they just update DVD Shrink because I like just taking the movie and burning it uncompressed to a $0.80 Verbatim DVD-R.

dvd decpryter will be able to do it LIGHTNING_UK! is the man/woman. he/she did it with re2 and little black book in no time! ripguard doesnt stand a chance in hell! go ahead waste money and time and also alienate the consumers. this is what i think we should boycott whatever company uses ripguard go to our local rental store and rip the movie and pass it out to our friends for free

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!!!

I travel a lot. I copy my movies to take them with me. I do this so if they get lost/stolen or broken I still have my movie at home. If they make them so that when I rent or buy them and they don't work on any of my players, they are forcing me to go to P2P to get them so that they will play on my players. They are hurting their own market. What they need to understand is there is always going to be someone to break the coding. They need to find another way of dealing with this. One way is pricing.They need to keep thinking.

hah, maybe one day they'll get it through their thick skulls that copy protection is pointless.
i, too, copy cds and dvds to use or take with me and keep my originals in their cases, so if it gets scratched i'll still have the original.

I have an older GE DVD player that plays both DVD +R's and DVD -Rs. I got it second hand, but it works fine except I've been having trouble playing "store bought" DVD's just lately. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was the first, but it's been happening more and more lately. It's mostly the new movies. Old cheapies from Walmart work just fine, and if I make a copy, that plays just fine. I was thinking the DVD player was dying, but maybe it has something to do with all this protection stuff? Any ideas?

I found "I_heart_Huckabees" had the new protection. Managed to decrypt with the new Jan. version of decrypter and then shrink as usual.....but no burning software I have DVD Clone2, Alcohol,Roxio or Nero could open the files to back up on burnable media. aarrg!

i did huckabees w/no problems

fancymojo, did the copy you had have a copy protection logo on the box? the one I had had a logo i had never seen before.

the dvd i tried to back up wouldn't play in my stand alone player, so i tried to back it up to see if i could play the back up.....couldn't back it up so i ended up returning the original to the retailer. is that what the movie industry really wants?

why not post more on this "logo"

We're like Captain Planet here "with our powers combined"

can you take a pic. of the logo

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Man, I just love you guys being so confident that ripguard will undertaken...lol.....cool.

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have they ever implemented anything that hasnt been cracked or overcome yet?

The trouble I've been having lately is with looping. Is this one of the new schemes??

LOOPING??? ON WHAT DVDS

I've tried everything together seperate nothing will work for me.
I have css free and DVD Decrypter dvdfab decrypter dvd fab gold and platium any dvd 1 clickdvd please help me I m trying to burn bewitched it has sony Arccos ccs

Is this for real?! I have seen no proof of the logo, a screenshot, nothing at all. Come on, somebody should take a camera phone or a small digital camera into best buy & take a screenshot of the bewitched box or sumthing. It only takes a few mins, somebody needs to prove this is A SPOOF. Or forreal, let's get started on a fix.

"Bewitched" burned with no problems with AnyDVD running, DVD Decrypter and burned with Nero Recode 2.

I had trouble with Bewitched as well... DVD Decryter and Smart Ripper both failed. I used DVDFab Decryter without any problem, but did some "Googling" to see if I could find out why this DVD wasn't being cooperative. Excellent post here:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?p=311001

"If it's newly released by Columbia Pictures and/or Sony Pictures and you're having trouble with it - there is a good chance that it is an ARccOS™ protected DVD"

Excellent work PrpleHaze, thanks!

dvd region css+free is not availabe on its website any more i tried to purchase it i had a trial verison .

I found a way to hack the copy protection. I can't believe they did not think of this. I used SPAM converter ultimate. (which you can download free as a demo then go to a local butcher to get the free registration code to make it the full version) choose the video profile as dvd then go to file and add the video files from the Dark Knight DVD.

render it to an iso file then burn it....So *bleep* simple...They wasted their money and time with this copy protection measure....good luck to them next time..

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