god any protection can be overcome

Fire Smackrovision, sue them for being a bunch of spineless bs artist, lower the dvd cost to fair and reasonable, throw out fancy plastic cases in exchange for simple paper sleeves and no one will care about hacking this stuff.

they should use a harder plastic to stop the Scratching the surface of the disks,and stop using the cheap plastic..that most movie are put on.

Macrovision,now that's a company I would invest in.LMFAO.

The best part is that DVD Decrypter will stil rip all these movies. So now that Macrovision owns the rights to Decrypter we can all use it to break there great copy protection!

I say spank em with a fish head and feed it to em. lol

If Ripguard was really on the movies That Mr. Piper says, then why does anydvd not display it? I have my doughts that it has come out yet. This reminds me of the time when everyone in the forums was blasting DTV about they could not stop them from hacking their cards.Well guess what!! They came after the end usuers and then all those people on the forums that didnt have a clue about writing a script (and braged they could not be stopped) got letters and had to cough up $3500. I would be careful about kicking sand in the big boys face. I paid $3500 to learn that lesson. Some people were lucky some were not..which are you?? Not trying to make anyone mad, but just being careful.

Just my 2 cents

Ripguard protection on a dvd and hacking DTV cards are two totally different issues

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ABC
The behavior is all I am talking about that is the same.
No Offense intended.

Umm in case you havent heard, AnyDVD did display it. Go to their web site and you'll lern what ripguard is really about. All ripguard is, it's a stupid thing that hides codes and other files within the dvd it's self. Thats why you get all those read errors in DVD Shrink. Not only does it give a read error but it tells you were the error is. Try it on stealth, madagascar, and war of the worlds. Nothing AnyDVD cant find though.

@cash1la,

Where on slysoft's website did you find out about Ripguard? As far as I know, AnyDVD does not fully remove this corruption.

When I took a look at the IFOs of Madagascar, I did not see a big difference between this and ARccOS. Ripguard seems to place a corrupted cell in a different PGC from the main movie while ARccOS corrupts the main movie PGC. Both are not really protections, but actually intentional authoring errors IMO.

@Rushman1,

I know for a fact that Ripguard is being used, because I have read some articles about it. Most have been in news about adult videos.

The reason that AnyDVD does not diplay "found and removed Ripguard" is because the creators of AnyDVD do not know exactly what Ripguard is. However, since it is still a structure based corruption, it does a good job of fixing movies with Ripguard.

here you go

looks like its offical that "Madagascar" does have Ripguard

anydvd update to 5.6.1.1

5.6.1.1, 2005 11 27

- New: Added detection and removal of a new type of protection
"MacroVision RipGuard" as found on "Madagascar WideScreen" R1 (US)
or "Vet Hard" R2 (Netherlands) to the option to remove
"Protection based on unreadable Sectors"
Note: RipGuard could be copied together with elby CloneDVD2 since
AnyDVD version 5.4.1.1, but this new version supports drag and drop
of all files from DVD to harddisk as well!
- New: Added support for a new version of the Sony Arccos protection
as found on "Seinfeld Season 6 Disc 3" R2 (German) to the option to
remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors"
- New: Information Window now shows MacroVision RipGuard, if it was
detected.
- New: Information Window now displays, if "Error zones between files"
have been removed, like on "Resident Evil - Apocalypse" R1 (US)

Is Macrovision still obsessed with corruption?

Syeberman ....
"Throws a time base corrector at a tribble"

Some one ought to tell these guys if you can watch or hear it you can copy it!!!!!!!

now ye will know if it has RipGuard

its from here
http://www.slysoft.com/download/changes_anydvd.txt

AnyDVD 5.6.1.1
just info

Music labels losing sales over DRM
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/263395

Rikoshay
your right,i did not see the other post..

@ ireland,

I think it's great that you site your sources, but I think that if the comment was already placed in a thread, then you should just point out where that source was from, and not restate what was already said.

Its funny that they spend millions trying to create
turbulence and ended up with a light breeze. Yay for
Macromutz!!

heres "Sky High"

Summary for drive E: (AnyDVD 5.6.1.1)
Drive (Hardware) Region: 1

Media is a Data DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)

Video DVD (or CD) label: SKH0NNF1
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

RCE protection not found.
Found & removed wrong DVD structure!
Found & removed Macrovision RipGuard protection!
Autorun not found on Video DVD.
Found & removed 2 bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!


ripped,encoded,shrinked and backup in leed that 25 minutes HAAAAAAAAAA!!!! macrovision

What is that free ripping program? Anyone found out? If I can't find it, I guess I'll just have to buy AnyDVD instead. Also Dvd X Copy as a test? Com on that ripper has stopped updating for a long time. I was so pissed of when i just brought it at my local CompUSA for $100 and a month later the company shut down which then opens later as 321 or 123 Copy Dvd or something and then doesn't give their old customer updates.

Not sure which free DVD ripper they used, but I am still using DVD Decrypter!

DVDfabdecrypter is also free, you really don't need to buy AnyDVD to do these movies.

Macrovision may have bullied LIGHTNING UK! into giving up his code but it still works great for me.

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l34merik your probably looking for DVD43 its a free ripper BUT nothing close compared to AnyDVD well worth the money my freind

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Also, as wild77 stated, DVD Decrypter is working so far with Ripguard movies.

Hi all. This is my first post on AFTERDAWN. I agree with the post of member "swmiller6". They will never be able to stop but only slow down the 'copying industry'. The only question that comes to my mind is how long before the copy protection is cracked again.
I feel sorry for guys like AnyDVD who will soon find themselves getting the 'tap on the shoulders'. But, I believe that, like 'swmiller6', if you can see or hear it..you can copy it!
It will be a never ending battle until the price of music, games and video drops low enough that people would rather just buy it retail than download the latest crack or ripper.
For now it's kinda fun watching BIG BROTHER sweat-it while others rip-it.
P.S Madagascar sucks anyways. I liked Shrek more!
:)

Based on what I've read, next gen DVDs will not be the same. It will have invisible watermarks and changes in audio pitch that will prevent copying even with a video camera and microphone. I've seen something similar in that past, at least with audio signal scrambling, and that is no joke, however, this only to prevent Video camera copies, so it was not implemented in that same way as I have seen.

Of course, this means that there will be more efforts to crack the actual encryption on a disc.

As for Ripguard, this is not copy protection. Same goes for ARccOS.

who want dvd ripper ? email me

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Based on what I've read, next gen DVDs will not be the same. It will have invisible watermarks and changes in audio pitch that will prevent copying even with a video camera and microphone. I've seen something similar in that past, at least with audio signal scrambling, and that is no joke, however, this only to prevent Video camera copies, so it was not implemented in that same way as I have seen.

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any next gen material that is backwards compatable will not be able to use new hard to crack schemes.

very vehcile made in the past with advd player and every vehcile made for the next couple of years will have standard dvd players. people may buy one hd player but the bulk of the market will be standatd dvd for five to seven yearts at aminumum.

the methods you mention will be cracked in less than a year.

don't forget that the sped of cracks are simpy dependent on the number of units sold. if as many xbox 360 existed as dvd players there would have been a crack and or hardware solution the first month

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if as many xbox 360 existed as dvd players there would have been a crack and or hardware solution the first month

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Right you are!!! The availability of the hardware (or software) will speed things up.