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Is Your DVD Server Legal? Manufacturers Say Yes!
Developers of movie-ripping products insist their products are legal. Here's how the manufacturers justify their solutions.
Escient - Vision
From CE Pro's interview with Chris Commons, Escient vice president, product planning and development.
When Vision was first announced last year, you could not copy DVDs to the server from its built-in disk drive. Now you can. What changed?
[Initially] we were telling everyone that there were legal issues surrounding the importing of movies. We’ve resolved those issues so you can import movies on the front-panel DVD drive.
Exactly how did Escient “resolve” those issues?
We’re maintaining all of the encryption that’s on the movie so when we’re moving a movie from a disc to the internal hard drive, it’s copying bit for bit with all of the encryption intact. We’re adding our own second level of even more stringent encryption to protect it [DVD content] when it’s on the Vision storage system.
Axonix - MediaMax
From the Online Axonix FAQ
*While the MediaMax is shipped with licensed decryption software that is used to play back optical SD DVD, and Blu-ray discs it may not be able to load or play some or all DVDs. Axonix does not ship, offer or induce the use of any unlicensed decrypting software on the MediaMax. To learn more about the issue surrounding copy protected movie discs click here (shown below).
What about copyright laws? Is there information on how to obey copyright laws?
Click here to read the article "Fair Use? How to Back Up DVD Movies"
Click to read the article "Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)".
For additional information contact your Axonix Project Manager by clicking here
Fuze Media - Fuze One
From interview with Fuze's Bob Silver
Initially, Fuze expected users to find and download their own DVD copying software. Now you've made it easier for them. Why the change?
We felt there were adequate solutions for getting DVDs onto the system, so we left it alone for DRM purposes.
But people want a brain-dead way of doing it. We decided we could make it easier with our new DVD Importer [application].
The way we're dealing with the legality is that our product by itself will not rip a DVD if you try to put a content-protected disk in.
The customer needs to go online and buy copy of AnyDVD from SlySoft. It resides in the background of the computer and decrypts any type of encrypted DVD that you put in the computer. Our software sees the DVD as an unencrypted DVD and imports it without any type of encryption.
We're not unencrypting DVDs; AnyDVD is. We're clean.
DVD Ripping: The Whole Picture
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How do Manufacturers Justify their DVD Servers?
My question is, How do Manufacturers Justify their HDD pricing?
Loren: Pricing of HDD’s? Easy, these are not your run of the mill Best Buy 1TB junk stacked drives that will fail in a year. Most are RAID 5 or 6 12+TB(6 usable and rated) enterprise data center grade devices capable of multiple simultaneous 1080P signal streams. Unreal data throughout that NAS drives can’t do. They have hot swappable drives etc… Most use propitiatory interconnects and have performance reporting systems on-board. Your basically setting up a mini private data center that could run a fortune 500 company in a residential home. Don’t confuse these for what people put their pictures and mp3 files on from the junk on Dell’s website.
In Australia,Queensland. Is it legal to show a DVD movie from a video hire shop or a purchased movie to residents in a community hall in a retirement village. No monetary charges to residents
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I get the feeling that since the manufacturers are pushing this with dubious justification, this issue will be heading for a massive courtroom showdown in the near future.