Who cares anyway, the people who into this business, know what to do and how to do it... others don't need to get in trouble explaining things. There are good 'how tos' available if one seeks, i'm sure the info. is out there somewhere!

The guy at the very top is declaring some brilliant goods, if I do say so myself.

Bye. Jon.

If the DMCA says you can't offer any software which might enable piracy then all CD rippers including iTunes are illegal.

Even though they've tried, it's pretty clear ripping isn't illegal and I believe that covers movies as well.

Copy Is Studio Distribution Ploy "Pay Up", Being Only Point. You Rent title from Planet TS, You Make Copy or Why Rent It, It cost Plaenty to Make copy, BAD Choices, NO Copy, Part of St.ar System. You BUY Whole Disk, of course You Need Back Up In case of Breakage, , then ?burn your Way Thru Clums, again, just in case.Or Use Camera On Front Of Display.

What If Neighbors See ur works, Well Forget Land Title, Give ALL Monies to Charity Doctor & Wheape. drashek

I just don't see why [the MAFIAA] feel software that even maintains the copy protection is dangerous when [...] others have been out for years and are still widely available.

Its called "justifying your continued employment".

The lawyers want to justify their continued employment to the MAFIAA, so they invent reasons why they are indispensable - like this trumped-up garbage.

And the MAFIAA wish to appear still relevant to the movie industry upon whom they feed.

And so on.

Blasphemy! Nothing will ever replace Winamp...except the latest version of winamp, or the previous version for the ill-fated winamp 3 :-p

And to be honest the CCCP with Media Player Classic HC works far better than VLC...I'm still scarred from years ago when VLC couldn't upmix stereo sources to 5.1....do I want to hear explosions through a) my 10" sub or b) My mid+tweeter satellites.....

And looping strangely around to back on topic, I'm kinda hoping the MAFIAA win in the vein hope it'll stop Real putting out all that godawful software and propriety junk that they call media formats. Although obviously I want Real to win because...well it's against the MAFIAA. I just don't see why they feel software that even maintains the copy protection is dangerous when DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, AnyDVD and all the others have been out for years and are still widely available.

Jip there is much better DVD & Blu-ray etc. rippers out there; this is the best 1 of the lot.
It's also the easiest to use, and it’s got a truck load of extra useful features for al your other entertainment needs and gear.

DVDFab 5.2.5.0

http://www.dvdfab.com/download.htm

You can also use:

Slysoft AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.5.4.0

Slysoft CloneDVD 2.9.2.2

http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html

Although the fact is that the Slysoft software has a higher learning curve in general.

It’s my opinion that RealNetworks software was always bloatware and sucked big time.

The best media player out there for quick playback is still:

VLC Media Player 0.9.9

http://www.videolan.org

And finally a new replacement for Windows Media Player 11 & WinAmp even, that I’ve started using.
It can rip music to MP3 and even the new FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), and all the others.

Songbird

http://getsongbird.com