Warner Bros, Intel File DMCA Suit Over HDCP Crack Devices
Freedom USA is the parent company of AVA Direct and Antarespro.com. The plaintiffs filed a complaint alleging violation of the DMCA and are asking for an injunction that prevents Freedom USA from importing, manufacturing and offering HDCP circumvention products, as well as their seizure and impoundment, in addition to damages.
According to the lawsuit, the products currently being offered allow buyers to "engage in unauthorized [content] copying". Warner Bros. also alleges that its intellectual property is also vulnerable to unauthorized access, presumably because Freedom USA's products use the HDCP master key, which was cracked about two years ago.
The lawsuit specifically targets the "SIIG C-H20511-S1 HDMI toYPbPr/VGA & Audio Conv", "StarTech.com MNHD2VGAE VideoCable", "SABRENT HDMI TO VGACONVERTER HDMI INPUT", "SIIG CE-H21011-S1 - SIIG HDMI toVGA Converter with Audio Functions: Signal Conversion" and "CE LABS HDMI TO COMPOSITESCALER" that are offered via channels such as Ebay. The devices were previously available via large retailers such as Newegg as well, but have been removed from their websites recently.
Sounds like studios barking up the wrong tree to me.
I know they may not know it, but movies are ripped from the disc not from a bluray player or cable box to one of these then tons of conversions/compression.
This just hurts customers for no good reason.
Oh s***! They're going to sue me next!
I know they may not know it, but movies are ripped from the disc not from a bluray player or cable box to one of these then tons of conversions/compression.
This just hurts customers for no good reason.
Oh s***! They're going to sue me next!
Hmm, maybe I can double up on copyright/patent law study AND material engineering. Who needs some damn cookies when you can earn stupidly large and stable amount of money.
Sounds like studios barking up the wrong tree to me.
But nobody has cracked the master key. And they're not going to, since Blu-ray uses real crypto. All the existing cracks have done is stolen some keys that new discs will stop supporting.
Broadcast television and PayPerView also use HDCP
So thats why they are pushing BD so hard for >_>
And here I thought it was for the marginal improvement of screen quality that I can barely notice ^.^ >_>
The difference in video quality between DVD and Blu-ray is quite pronounced, you either need to get glasses or dump your CRT television.
Thats an idiotic comment if ever I heard one. Try doing some research first. Ever heard of AnyDvdHD? Or DvdFab? Or MakeMKV? Blu-ray encryption is thoroughly broken. The only thing thats not cracked is Cinavia since it uses an analogue sound wave that can't be removed from digital recordings at present. But its only a matter of time.
you have any idea how stupid pirateing through that method would be?
try recording an uncompressed 1080p signal for a minute, and look at how much space that takes up... i beleive it would be around 5-10gb. which you would than have to compress the hell out of, which would probably net you an over all worse coppy than just ripping the blu ray itself.
that said, keep in mind there are MANY reasons to rip a dvd or a bluray
personally i have a media server setup where i live, so every device can access the files simply and display them however i wish.
this isnt stamping out piracy, because no pirate would do this anymore after the discs can be cracked and ripped.
ok, from what i read, its a sound that is inaudible. and doesnt ruin the movie.
that would mean that its at a specific range that cant be heard, so logic would say chop off the high and low end on any media we know has it, and isolate it, find out its range, and remove it.
if they were smart in its implementation, they have the firmware capable of storing multiple ok signals, so when one is cracked, another is used.
if this is only used in theaters to prevent cams, i hope its never cracked, but if this is used in media for the pc, i could see a day where "this player is not supported, use the official player here for 99.95$" may be a reality, considering what studios do to theaters and force them to buy different projectors for different studios, i wouldnt count that reality out.
in that case i hope it gets stripable soon.
Thus my post listed CABLE BOX(broadcast and PPV would fall into that no?)?
Have you tried to compare the quality of cable/satellite to an actual BD disc? This is not what they tend to rip(others have stated, much more easy to rip the disc it self). If you want to rip tv shows, you can just do it over component anyway.
Actually....
I do need glasses....
Thank you for the purchasing tips
That's what I was thinking. No idea why it still exists. Never hear about it doing anything actually. I never hear any complaints from pirates....any who use this route probably aren't too successful at it either due to the sizes as well.