DVD Backup & Video Encoding Blog

Malaysian Web-Based DVD Piracy Ring Busted
DVD-Recordable - Sep 8, 2006Malaysian police have uncovered a major syndicate producing pirated digital video disc (DVD) versions of popular Hollywood movies, which were mailed to foreign …

Student sued over DVD piracy
Lehigh University The Brown and White, PA - Sep 18, 2006By Katy Jacobson. Oleg Alex Ribar, 08, has been named in a lawsuit with the Motion Picture Association of America for selling …

Microsoft Goes After Software Pirates, Plays CSI
WinInformant.com, OH - Sep 20, 2006… to find more, they should escort the cops to the Pacific Mall in Markham - they get busted on nearly a monthly basis for software piracy and, mostly, DVD piracy …

Major DVD Piracy Bust in Toronto
here’s how!, Canada - Aug 30, 2006Metropolitan Toronto Police 42 Division officers raided three locations in Toronto s Dynasty Centre plaza late last week, and have since announced the …

Hollywood turns to dogs to sniff out DVD piracy
Independent, UK - Sep 27, 2006By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles. Hollywood has a new weapon in the fight against digital piracy. It is sending the dogs in. Their …

Invention: Triple-standard DVD 
This week’s patent applications include a disc that works in both Blu-ray and HD-DVD machines and an ultrasonic brush that measures bad hair days

Teen Who Beat Homeless Man To Death Says Videos Influenced Him
WFTV - The videos depict homeless men and women engaged in humiliating, self-destructive acts, including ripping out teeth and ramming themselves into doors. According to the Bumfights Web site, the videos are satire meant to call attention to the

Loose Lips Sink Parking Meter Thieves
WGRZ TV - Police say 46-year-old George Robinson and 30-year old Terrence Miller confessed to ripping off parking meters worth $20,000. Police Chief H. McCarthy Gibson says they ll be charged with felony criminal misconduct, grand larceny, and possession of

It’s a free market
Spartanburg Herald-Journal - If you own a house that you bought for $5,000 in the 1950s and can sell it for $150,000 in 2006 because the market allows it, do you think the government should tell you that you can only sell your house for $6,000 because you are ripping off the

From The Archives
OregonLive.com - A year is a very long time in a small city. I’ve had the pleasure of intimately meeting, working with and otherwise hanging out with some of the key cultural strategists, fellow artists and others, virtually chopped from the region’s finest woodwork

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Gamasutra - June 9, 2006 GAS: Macrovision, Double Fusion Partner For In-Game Advertising In announcement made at the GDC Focus On Game Advertising Conference, Macrovision’s Trymedia division and in-game ad firm Double Fusion have announced a new downloadable

Macrovision Is Banking On Anti-Piracy Products For Online Movies
Investors Business Daily - Macrovision ( MVSN ) is likely to get a boost from Apple’s ( AAPL ) announcement Tuesday that it will add a movie downloading feature to its iTunes online music store. Macrovision has a stable of products that secure the intellectual property of

New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 71 
Photo credit: Magical Garden Use Skype from your mobile phone, without having to download anything on your device Record instantly from your webcam and post your recordings on blogs, in messages or comments Enhance your site performances by analyzing the behavior of your visitors Organize and track the work of your team within a web-based project management space Send free SMS from your mobile in

DVD hardware news 
Posted Monday, September 18th, 2006 Viewed 6 times. Marantz has just unleashed a new high performance upscaling DVD player selling for the remarkably low price of 350.

September 2006
Electronic Frontier Foundations - Gee, he isn’t suggesting that his business model benefits from customers using tools like DeCSS or Handbrake to evade the DRM on DVDs, right? Especially since Microsoft is furiously trying to squash the FairUse4WM tool, that would seem rather

Microsoft’s Best Response To Cracked Copy Protection? Sue For Stolen
Tech Dirt - it becomes like decss, illegal in the states, varies elsewhere, but is availble everywhere thanks to the net. they still have ‘DRM’ despite the fact people who want to can get rid of it. MS are happy (ish), content

Prosecution changes charges against “DVD-Jon”
Aftenposten - According to the prosecution, this made it possible for the decryption program DeCSS to work on a wide range of films. Johansen’s defense counsel, Halvor Manshaus, opposed this new development, saying he felt it changed the very nature of the

Birth burden
Beaver County Times, PA - 21 hours ago… Unfortunately, the American people have a president who wants to continue ripping off future generations. Look at your children. Look at your grandchildren. …

Gene Grant: At what price peace? Gated community life is a lie
Albuquerque Tribune, NM - 18 hours ago… And try to keep the lawsuits over newsletters, ripping out lawns for xeriscape, dogs, bicycles left in driveways and the other horrors of society to a dull roar …

Student date a ripping yarn
Courier Mail, Australia - Aug 25, 2006When his mates ask him who he’s taking to the Year 12 formal he can tell them former Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins. In a victory …

Bracks raiding water sector’s coffers
The Age, Australia - Sep 25, 2006… “The Government is ripping off water users in Victoria and failing to invest in water and, as a direct result, all Victorians are facing a water crisis.”. …

Macrovision’s FLEXnet Connect Keeps Software Producers and Customers Connected 
Macrovision(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) today announced significant enhancements to its FLEXnet Update Service technology.

Brulant Ramps Up Dedicated Resources, Forms IBM Advanced Technology Center 
Brulant, Inc., one of the leading online business partners in the nation, announced today that it has created the IBM Advanced Technology Center, a division within the company dedicated to innovation around the IBM WebSphere suite of products. (PRWEB Sep 7, 2006)

EA Gets in the Ad Game 
Company announces deals with IGA and Massive for in-game advertisements.

Silicon Valley’s Golden Past Tarnished by Latest Probes 
Silicon Valley has long been the stuff of dreams, a place where gawky entrepreneurs create billion-dollar companies in their garages, their innovations sometimes bending the rules but forever changing the way we listen to music or chat with friends.

HAST, MVSN and STN Update the Investment Community in WallSt.net Interviews 
On July 24, John Marmaduke, Chairman, President and CEO of Hastings Entertainment, Inc. updated the investment community in an all-new interview with www.wallst.net .

DeVeDe 2.4
DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs, suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, MKisofs (well, and Python, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.

Any New HDMI Upconversion DVD Recorders Coming Out?
Look at the media you are using and the brand of DVDwriter you are using on the computer. The Panasonic and LG players are sufficiently different that I suspect your disks.

DVDFab 3.0.1.3
Fast and easy backups of DVDs. No quality loss(original quality), Audio- and Subtitle streams can be omitted , Analyse and estimation of DVD data size , Split to 2 DVDs, Change Graphics (Please insert Disc).