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DVD
DECRYPTERS
DVD Decrypter is a software
application that can create backup disc images of the DVD-Video
structure of DVDs. It can be used to image any DVD, but controversially
it is especially useful for decrypting copy-protected movies. The
program can also burn images to disc. CSS decrypting software (such as
DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD, Smartripper, and DVD Shrink) allows a
region-specific DVD to be copied as an all-region DVD. It also removes
Macrovision, Content Scrambling System (CSS), region codes, and user
operation prohibition.
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As DVD Decrypter facilitates the removal
of copy restrictions, certain uses may be illegal under the United
States Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In countries without similar
laws there may not be any legal restrictions.
On June 6, 2005, the developer (known as "Lightning UK!") announced
via the CD Freaks website that he received a cease and desist letter
from an unnamed company. He later stated it was within his best
interests to comply with the letter, and stopped development of the
program. By June 7, 2005 a mirror site was up, which allowed people to
download the final version (3.5.4.0). On 27 November 2005, Afterdawn.com,
a Finnish website, announced that it complied with a letter received
from Macrovision demanding that DVD Decrypter be taken down from its
site. Shortly after, a site with no connection to Lightning UK! appeared
and claimed to be the "new" DVD Decrypter Site. This site has since
closed down.
Many American legal experts believe that under United States' Federal
law, making a backup copy of a DVD-Video or an audio CD by a consumer is
legal. Some feel this provision of United States law conflicts with the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibition of so-called "circumvention
measures" of copy protections.
In 2006, the United States Library of Congress created an exemption that
explicitly allows circumventing access control for certain educational
purposes.
In the noted "321" case, Federal District Judge Susan Illston, of the
Northern District of California, ruled that the backup copies made with
software such as DVD Decrypter are in fact legal but that distribution
of the software used to make them is illegal. As of the date of this
revision, neither the US Supreme Court nor the US Congress has taken
definitive action on the matter.
On October 4, 2005, Lightning UK! continued the development of the
burning engine used by DVD Decrypter in his new tool, ImgBurn.
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