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Movie industry wary of Real DVD ripper
MEDIA PLAYER FIRM Real has got the movie industry up in arms over its new RealDVD software that allows users to legally copy DVDs to a computer.
Unlike most other DVD-ripper programs which have been around for ages, Real Networks reckons its software keeps the existing security on the disc in place, it even adds another layer of protection preventing the copied files from being distributed around too much.
Basically RealDVD takes a complete snapshot of the disc, including all the extras, soundtracks and even that annoying anti-piracy ad that pops up at the beginning of every movie these days. Users can then watch their movies and TV shows without having to keep popping discs in and out, an attractive notion for travellers. Currently the system won't even image discs that have no copyright protection, assuming that they must be dodgy.
Seems safe enough, but our friends at the MPAA tend to get a tad jumpy around anything that could possibly eat into its exorbitant and outdated revenue streams and has said it needs time to check out Real's claims before it decides if it will endorse the product or want to have a quiet word with Real.
Although the program keeps the DVD's copy protection intact, people could still use it to copy borrowed or rented movies.
RealDVD is being unveiled today at the DEMOfall conference in San Diego. It will be available soon for $50, with the option of purchasing up to four extra extra licenses, allowing you to play ripped shows on these PCs as well, at $20 each. µ
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I think the issue here is not whether Real Networks is protecting the material it rips but they didn't clear it with Hollywood first.

As far as I know, legally or illegally, there is no permission for anyone to rip DVD's. Its their material and if they don't wan't it ripped, that's that.
Do you realise that this software allows you to RIP a dvd and play it back 'online'?? i.e. letting you store your DVD collection 'online' and play it back remotely

Thought not!!
It is really good news for the DVD fans like me. I am looking forward to the coming of Real DVD Ripper. 
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It can rip DVD to MP4, AVI, MP3, 3GP, FLV, MKV, RM and other video formats with super speed and excellent iamge/sound quality.
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(not about real, but about pesky ads) I have a lot of DVDs and they are legal. But every now and then I feel the urge to rip them and play without those annoyting ads. The most annoyting so far was the "Be Cool" DVD with antipiracy advertisement AND MARS BAR NOT-SKIPABLE ad.
I'm ready to pay the DVD prices, but that should be enough for producers to have profit. Forcing me to watch additional ads can actually shift my (so far) anti-piracy attitude.
...I just don't see the point. Why copy with protection, when you can copy without the protection, irritating trailers and copyright lectures? I have several "protected" discs that won't even play on my Philips DVD player, without first being ripped and copied (Back to the Future being one example).

Then there is the time wasted going through menus, trailers and boring, sanctimonious lectures about copyright. With AnyDVD, the time taken to watch a 117-minute movie has dropped, to 117 minutes. This is why I pay for AnyDVD - just in terms of what my time is worth, it's paid for itself several times over.

Until the movie studios realise that my time is valuable, this is the way it will continue to be in my household.
Are they serious? Ha ha ha. £50 for Real player. Omg they are doing their best to send people into the arms of the polite Chinese person in my local car park selling DVDs for £1 or £2.
This story demonstrates why the MPAA and all of the big publishers should and probably are going to fail. Even when someone tries to be above board with a product like this, tries to avoid being shady, they still move to squash the new product. This is why we "pirate" moves "illegally"-- because there isn't another alternative. I have a large drive loaded up with MY movies and TV shows so I don't have to shuffle through DVDs if I want to watch a movie while I fall asleep. Here we have a product that isn't trying to hide and is trying to be as legit as possible and they still try to kill it. Screw the dinosaurs.
...AnyDVD.

And non-copyrighted discs "dodgy"? Does that mean that everything not produced by the bloated f***wits polluting Hollywood with DRM infections is dodgy? Does that mean everyone who produces their own DVDs from their own DVD cameras or NLE systems is dodgy? That's bloody insulting.

Yeah, never mind AOL and dial-up, Real is going the way of Compuserve and 300 baud modems. Losers.

-Brad
I just want to say that this product like DRM itself will be a failure. Honestly I can understand the position of the movie industry not wanting to get ripped off but as long as they are raking in billions in profit a year by selling their products at atleast a 300-400% profit it's gonna keep happening and no amount of DRM is gonna stop it. Lets face it there never has, and probably never will be, a DRM system that someone out there can't break followed by giving everyone else a way to break it either for free or a small fee. In otherwords this product is doomed to failure because there are plenty of other products which get rid of the DRM the public hates so much as opposed to copying it onto their computers.
"Currently the system won't even image discs that have no copyright protection, assuming that they must be dodgy."

I'm sure the content creators will be happy to know that their paid-for licences for Content Scrambing System and Macrovision are actually being used as flags to indicate it's okay to copy their discs.

I suppose Real never considered:

1. Some minor titles are released without protection anyway - not worth the licensing fees.

2. DVD recorders produce unprotected discs

3. Their product isn't even needed to copy unprotected discs!
Read all about it!

How come Mac seems to have the only freeware ripper "Mac the Ripper"? That would be much more useful to me. On the PC, that is.
wrong sexxxx - AnyDVD for the win every time when it comes to drm infection every time, even blu ray 2
The point is that the MPAA should be thrilled that there is a ripper that keeps all the DRM intact, but they aren't.
It brings attention to the real issue of maintaining a strangle-hold of control on their revenue stream, not just protecting content.
Less than 5 mins to rip full content to hdd. Name folder and fire in to media player of choice (even media centre on ye olde broken OS), to play as though original disc was still in drive. Nothing could be more simple.
BBC use REAL, nuff said...

So what is the MPAA threatening if we don't adopt their draconian and crippling DRM? Not to produce any more movies? Well, then, go ahead and stop producing. Almost all of what Hollywood puts out nowadays is complete and utter crap anyway. Be doing humanity a service if they went away. Then we wouldn't have to listen to any third-rate actors tell us who we should vote for. As if those deluded drooling idiots had any inkling of the real world anyway.
Come on! It's there anyone so stupid as to invest a single dime on this crap ???

Why don't you guys write a nice article about Daemon Tools ?
As for DVD rippers, here are 2 very good which disable all protections :Xilisoft DVD Ripper Ultimate and Extra DVD Ripper
Not going to make much of an impact when you can DVDshrink a DVD to your hard drive with no DRM and no enforced previews before you can watch your movie.
OMG, it Real still around? Why?! R4eal conjurs up names like 
AOL and dial-up. Who in their right name would ever use Real for anything, its a spyware and DRM disaster that should have died back in the stone age of the web and I thought did.
"pops up at the beginning of every movie these days."

one of the main reasons by started ripping my dvds was to get rid of these. 

I KNOW PIRACY IS A CRIME - THATS WHY I PAID FOR THIS NUMBNUTS!!!!!

Surely i'm not the only one?