[mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip

[Johnathon Meichtry]

If your DVD-ROM drive in your PC has the DVD logo on it then I imagine you 
are using an official licensed DVD player and the manufacturer should have 
paid the approriate royalties to the DVD licensing group.

The software you use to decrypt and play it is a different story altogether 
i.e. legal vs. illegal use of deCSS etc.

There is also a very very big difference between ripping DVD's to put in 
your own Myth library and ripping to share with everyone else.  My advice is 
not to be shy and aggresively rip all your DVD's and get them into your Myth 
library as it totally changes the whole experience.  But never share them 
and make sure the computer where you host your ripped mpgs are totally cut 
off from the net i..e show intent that you are doing it for the right 
reasons.

If you remember that you own the physical media but not the content and to 
always look out for the interests of the copyright holder then you pretty 
much can't go wrong.  Thats my 2 cents worth anyway.

Horray for mplayer/mencoder/vobcopy/decss/mythtv and all the other fantastic 
tools that have totally changed the way my children view all their DVD's 
"on-demand" in any room of the house.

Johnathon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Adeff" <adeffs at gmail.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] RE: Problems with DVD rip


> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:14, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Alex Vishnev wrote:
>> >Thanks for the advice. I did not know that MADAGASCAR was DRM protected.
>>
>> Technically, any CSS-protected DVD is DRM-protected, and decrypting that
>> DVD on anything other than a licensed DVD player is a federal felony
>> offense in the US (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)...
>>
>> Mike
>
> Civil disobedience. It worked for our founding fathers (subsequently made
> illegal by our "elected" officials).
>
> Steve
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