Good Evening
I really do not know if i'm allowed to ask the following question.
But here goes
How do you Decrypt a Movie that is Encrypted.
Some Movies have a writing at the very front telling you to go
to this Website.
The problem is that the Software needed is not there and i have a Mac.
Hope someone can give an answer.
Quote from: plume on February 06, 2009, 07:36:26 PM
How do you Decrypt a Movie that is Encrypted.
Some Movies have a writing at the very front telling you to go
to this Website.
The problem is that the Software needed is not there and i have a Mac.
Decryption is illegal. But just in case you are not talking about an illegal activity, and people wanted to help, you haven't provided any detail. How can anyone answer this question? "There's a Web site. I can't use the software. What software should I use?"
Making copies of copy-protected movies is NOT legal, however, if you are decrypting foreign, i.e. non-region 1 movies so that they will play on your region 1 player, it IS within your consumer rights to do so. For example, you go to Europe to work for a year or two, you buy some DVDs, only to discover that when you return to North America, your purchased disks will not play on your region 1 player. The software you would be looking for is called Mac The Ripper, and it IS difficult to find as it can be used to illegally remove the copy protection from most DVDs.
Good Luck, and don't do anything we wouldn't do.
Happy Mac'ing
Dan
If the problem is region-coding of commercial DVDs, then what you may want to get is a so-called "region free" DVD player. These are widely available in Austria, Switzerland, and France. However, they end up being PAL or SECAM instead of NTSC and want to work on 220 VAC.
Many of the very cheapest DVD players available in Canada can be converted to "region-free" status by entering a few codes via the remote control. The expensive brand-name players typically do not have this feature. The el-cheapos can also convert the signal from a PAL DVD to play on and NTSC set and most can play DIVX or XVID encoded movies. Some of them can even up-sample to 1080p.
Virtually all computer-based DVD drives can be "region-switched". For example, when you insert a Region 2 DVD into your Region 1 drive, it will switch to region 2 (after it asks if OK, I hope!). However, after 5 switches, the drive will be locked to the 5th region.
Although the law is clear about decryption (it is illegal), the law is not clear about Fair Use. While that's the case, it is not illegal to create a back-up copy of a DVD that you own for your personal use.
A useful application is Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/).
As of today (Feb 15, 2009) the law is clear about decryption in the US where the DMCA:
Quotecriminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures (commonly known as Digital Rights Management or DRM) that control access to copyrighted works and it also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act for more info.
However, in Canada, Bill C-61, also known as the Canadian DMCA, died on the order paper prior to the last election, so:
QuoteThe Copyright Act does not provide legal protection against the circumvention or hacking of digital locks that copyright owners may use to prevent unauthorized use of their works. It also does not prohibit the manufacturing or trafficking of devices and services that can be used to break these locks.
See http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/crp-prda.nsf/eng/rp01166.html for the source of the quote and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-61 for more info.
Thanks for correcting me. The bill didn't pass, so it isn't illegal to break encryption here... yet. But you know it's coming.