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Disney News
Disneyland Report - Captain Jack Sparrow is the lead character portrayed by Johnny Depp in Walt Disney Pictures’ hit summer 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, as well as its sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man s Chest, which is

Media Sites: Google Ads Aid Movie Piracy
MarketingVOX - Despite not being named as a defendant, Google is in the middle of a lawsuit between media companies and online movie pirates, reports CNET . The suit accuses download sites offering movies and television-show episodes of leading the online audience

New Star Wars title seeks to redefine 3D games
The Inquirer - All of the motion capture and facial expressions were done by VFX crew from movie Pirates of The Caribbean, and the demos were impressive indeed. The Euphoria engine will generate a lot of interest for the gamers, because this fully autonomous bio

Disc-sniffing movie dogs under protection
Lexington Herald-Leader - real and pirated discs, but can detect discs hidden in shipments or concealed places. Malaysia is among the world’s top illegal movie producers and exporters, according to the MPAA, who says its members lost $1.2 billion to Asia-Pacific movie pirates

Dogs used to tackle movie, music piracy
Myrtle Beach Online - are on loan for a month from the Motion Picture Association of America, which says its members - including top Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Universal - lost $1.2 billion to Asia-Pacific movie pirates in 2006

Thank you, Thank you, Thank You
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Slysoft Ships AnyDVD HD
DVD Recordable - New: added support for new versions of SONY s ARccOS protectionto the option “Remove Protection based on unreadable Sectors” * Added AnyDVD HD Ripper * Fixed: Problem with multi-angle titles and Sony Arccos protection * Some minor fixes and

TV Q&A with Rob Owen 
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Many music executives are against DRM - survey 
Most music executives are against DRM, according to a survey done by Jupiter Research. From December to January, Jupiter polled executives of large and small record labels along with executives of digital rights bodies and online music stores in Europe of found that 54% thought DRM systems were overly restrictive. The vast majority, 62%, believed that completely dropping DRM would increase …

Macrovision Licenses DRM to Online Video Stores 
Macrovision said Tuesday that it had signed agreements with several online providers to employ the company’s Analog Copy Protection (ACP) system in Internet movie and video distribution.

Walt Disney Internet Group Signs Distribution Agreement With Macrovision 
LONDON & SANTA CLARA, Calif.—-The Walt Disney Internet Group and Macrovision Corporation today announced that WDIG has signed an agreement with Macrovision to digitally distribute Disney-branded casual games in Europe and Australia via Macrovision’s games network.

Jobs challenged to drop copy protection for Pixar films 
DefectiveByDesign dares the Apple CEO, among other items, to fund a campaign to repeal the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for the benefit of customers.

Slysoft Ships AnyDVD HD
DVD Recordable - New: added support for new versions of SONY s ARccOS protectionto the option “Remove Protection based on unreadable Sectors” * Added AnyDVD HD Ripper * Fixed: Problem with multi-angle titles and Sony Arccos protection * Some minor fixes and

Product Reviews
Mac User - Verdict: Forget the DVD-to-DVD copying and use it as a great way to encode any video content on your Mac for your iPod, phone or PlayStation Portable Our first thought when we reviewed Popcorn 1.0, Roxio’s application for DVD-to-DVD copying was, ‘why

Cross: Should Music Lovers Boycott the RIAA?
FOX News - First, it limits the statutory damages that could be imposed on companies that make technologies like DVD copying and such that circumvent copy protection. Second, it would protect hardware and software companies from being sued if they make something

May 2003
Out-Law - of open source over Microsoft UK seizes millions of customer records from telcos and ISPs Virgin Wines and the Distance Selling rules Oftel wants to cut mobile phone charges UNIX owner warns that Linux infringes Movie industry in court over DVD copying

December 2003
Out-Law - law signed by President Bush Too many homepages have broken links, says report E-marketers warned by ASA for not getting consent Privacy chief to revisit Data Protection guidance after Durant Europe approves air passenger data transfers to US DVD copying

SlySoft invites beta testers for upcoming HD-DVD ripper
TG Daily - Interested consumers can freely download the beta program and begin ripping discs, but SlySoft has set some ground rules. Testers must have experience with AnyDVD and DVD copying and should have a good reputation in the ripping forums. They also, for

August 2004
Out-Law - settle ad patent dispute Rules for using internet dialler software Data retention is the main compliance headache for banks Intellectual property crime strategy in UK Mexican tourist board foiled in hijack of Mexico.com Movie industry settles DVD-copying

AviDemux 2.4 preview
Video editor and encoder. It can edit, encode, requantize AVI, DivX, XviD, MPG, MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, DV. Very much like VirtualDub, but can also encode to VCD/SVCD/DVD mpg.

Putting a .sub file into an exiting VIDEO_TS folder, with no subs in it.
Thx for your VERY fast reply!! Eppreciat it!! I should have made a note in my post saiyng that I’m a big n00b in this area, so maybe you could spell it out more? Guess that U can’t just put the sup file into the VIDEO_TS folder and just burn the DVD? This conveting/adding subs is SO more complicated then I thought Btw. Thought that…

Switched from Lite-On to Philips, same problem!
I am desperate. I’m on my second unit, after returning the Lite-On and trying the Philips. I am trying to clear off my Tivo by burning TV shows onto DVD’s using the Philips DVDR3400. After recording, I go into edit mode and insert chapter markers. The DVD recorder itself reads these chapter markings just fine. But after I finalize the disc …

Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X v2.0.0.3
Firefox is Mozilla's next generation web browser.

Is DRM Doomed? The Case Against Digital-Rights Management 
In the wake of Steve Jobs’ call to eliminate anti-copying technology, are the music and movie industries poised to move from protection to monitoring?

Macrovision copy protection coming to a download near you 
A number of online movie download services have inked a deal with Macrovision to offer that company’s ACP protection with their movies. We’ll peer through the scrambled signal to figure out the larger picture behind this move. Read More…

TV Q&A with Rob Owen 
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Macrovision CEO Responds to Steve Jobs 
More than a week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested that the recording industry turn its back on copy protection, new angles — and new opinions — have emerged in the debate over digital rights management.

Netflix to use Macrovision DRM for video downloads 
Macrovision today announced that Netflix will be using the firm’s content protection technology in its video download service.

Thinstall Launches Distribution and Certified Partner Program To Support Global Demand for Application Virtualization 
Thinstall, the leading Application Virtualization solution provider, today announced its Distribution Partner Program, naming Centia as European Distribution Partner, and Lifeboat Distribution, a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. , as its North American Distribution Partner.

Escape: I spy with my X-ray eye
Mac User - I thought Al Qaeda was bankrolled by DVD piracy.’ ‘Very funny, sir.’ ‘Thanks, I’m here all week.’ ‘You will be.’ If the X-ray system turns out not to be any use - although that’s never stopped the Government spending several billion on an IT contract

TheStar.com - Business - U.S. movie piracy claims mostly fiction
Toronto Star - Over the past year, the RCMP and local police forces laid charges for DVD piracy on numerous occasions, while a Canadian court upheld a U.S. decision to fine a Canadian operator nearly $500,000 (Canadian) for copyright infringement related to movie

Rants + Raves
Wired - In other industry news, readers couldn’t decide whether the American who was busted for DVD piracy in China (”The Decline & Fall of Randolph Hobson Guthrie III”) was a “dumb-ass” or just “got pawned.” How should we know? We’re waiting for the movie

Bounty Hunters
Egypt Today - In the United Kingdom, a newly founded Film Piracy Unit recently raided what is believed to be the largest DVD piracy factory discovered in Britain to date. Among their findings were 60 DVD burners and 30,000 blank discs at a factory police

Consoles: Sony PSP - Games: Ask all of your PSP 1.5- devhook questions and ISO problems here!
Latest post to a thread “Ask all of your PSP 1.5- devhook questions and ISO problems here!” has been made by chaosnova at 18 March 2007 10:02

3 Films (2 of them VTS Files) Helppp Plz
Is dvdpatcher hard to use No will it do the job for me? No tool does any job for you . But it will help you get the job done! /Mats

Digital video discussion: General video discussion: Convert from DVD to WMV?
Latest post to a thread “Convert from DVD to WMV?” has been made by scf_au at 18 March 2007 10:02

Photodex Proshow 3.0.1935
ProShow lets you create amazing slide shows that play on your PC or TV. Create VCD and DVD slide Shows. Use ProShow to easily create stunning slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun! Just select your photos and drop them in the show. Add a custom soundtrack or pick from over 280 stunning transition effects to add that final touch.

DVDFab Decrypter & DVDFab HD Decrypter 3.0.9.0 Beta
DVDFab Decrypter is a simple version of DVDFab. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. Copy HD-DVD to hard disk in Full Disc mode, in less than one hour.