Posted on 02/25/2016 10:21:16 PM PST by Utilizer
SlySoft Inc. is a software company registered in the Carribean country of Antigua and Barbuda. For the past few years, the firm has been a thorn in the side of Hollywood studios and game makers by creating and releasing software that would circumvent DRM and copyright protections on CDs and DVDs.
Its product line includes tools like AnyDVD, AnyDVD HD, Clone CD, CloneDVD mobile, Virtual Clone Drive, Game Jackal, and Game Jackal Enterprise. With no doubt, the company's most known product is AnyDVD, a device driver used by many movie, game, and software piracy groups (and even home users) to go around DRM restrictions in off-the-shelf DVDs. SlySoft was at the heart of a drawn-out lawsuit
In 2012, the company and its owner were sued by AACS LA (Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator), a coalition of various movie studios and software makers like Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft and Intel.
AACS is the legal entity that develops and licenses the AACS copy-protection system used on most of today's HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs.
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Physical media is dying a slow death.
Surprising or not, rock and metal bands have a very loyal following who still purchase CDs and vinyl. I’ve preordered a bunch of CDs before.
There’s still DVDFab and Wookao...
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Bookmark.
I still buy physical media (Blu-rays, CDs, DVDs). However, I had no need of the softwares mentioned as I don't feel the need to copy my discs. That's why I have the discs. I do copy CDs to play in my vehicle so as not to damage the originals, but that's it.
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Not much of a blow, I’ve never heard of any of that software, plenty of other tools for doing the same thing.
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The Chicoms make DVD players that play all regions. You can buy them in Europe no problem but I don’t see them for sale in the US.
I think someone not too far back posted that if you have some basic soldering skills and a few discrete components (diodes or resistors) then you can modify most newer dvd players to play all regions. Stands to reason: most manufacturers are not willing to pay extra to manufacture at least four basic versions of a product merely to sell the exact same item in different countries. It is easiest to fab one basic board with selectable options for different builds.
I always meant to look at a few players to see what I could find but have not had the chance to do so as of yet.
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