Hi, Thanks to James. http://sandbox.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD5541.exe Here is the changelog (diff from the latest retail version): 5.5.4.1, 2005 11 15 - New: Added detection and removal of a new type of protection "Chapter Jump" as found on "Kleiner König Kalle Wirsch" (German) to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors" - New: Added display of "Chapter Jump" structural protection in AnyDVD information window - New: Added support for a new protection as found on "Layer Cake" R2 (Dutch) to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors" - New: As DVD43 could cause system instability if installed together with AnyDVD, it can now be automatically uninstalled, as soon as AnyDVD is started. - Updated languages __________________ James
more info Originally Posted by SlySoft Thanks to all of you for your input. We will do it this way: 1.) AnyDVD installation will not uninstall DVD43 2.) When AnyDVD is started and detects that DVD43 is running, it stops it (little DVD43 face goes away). 3.) The following dialog will appear: -------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING!!!! DVD43 is installed on your system. There is a serious conflict between AnyDVD and DVD43. For the stability of your system, it is highly recommended to uninstall DVD43! Do you wish to uninstall DVD43? If you click "Yes", DVD43 will be uninstalled (highly recommended). Click "No" to keep DVD43 on your computer. If you click "No", this dialog will not be shown again. [Yes] [No] -------------------------------------------------------------------- This should cover all scenarios, even if DVD43 is installed at a later time. A new beta - with the changes discussed above - is available for testing: its on anydvd site http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html download here http://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD.exe Here is the changelog (diff from the latest retail version): 5.5.4.1, 2005 11 15 - New: Added detection and removal of a new type of protection "Chapter Jump" as found on "Kleiner König Kalle Wirsch" (German) to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors" - New: Added display of "Chapter Jump" structural protection in AnyDVD information window - New: Added support for a new protection as found on "Layer Cake" R2 (Dutch) to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors" - New: As DVD43 could cause system instability if installed together with AnyDVD, it can now be automatically uninstalled, as soon as AnyDVD is started. - Updated languages __________________ James SlySoft products
I downloaded the latest update. What is DVD43? Is it something that came with a previous release of AnyDVD or is it something that I would have installed separately? I am not very familiar with any of the programs other than AnyDVD and CloneDVD.
Everyday I seem to be installing an Anydvd update What's going on this week? Kudos to Slysoft for keepin it up to date though
Don't think we have seen the last of the AnyDVD updates there should be a few more to cover Madagascar, since this movie has been identified by the Slysoft team as having RipGuard. They want to work on the protection and are awaiting the real DVD delivery, guess things get shipped slow to Antiqua.
MacroVision's RipGuard can it stop the rips? Posted by Dan Bell on 15 February 2005 - 17:03 - Source: BBC drpino used our news submit to tell us "I wonder how quickly this protection scheme will be foiled by the likes of AnyDVD, etc. They mention updating the scheme if it"s bypassed but they don"t mention how long they are willing to do that ring-around-the-rosy dance with the public where there will be, without a doubt, coders / crackers / hackers working endlessly and forever on methods of getting around ANY copy protection schemes the content industry decides to employ. power to the people! " The pirated DVD market is enormous because current copy protection was hacked more than five years ago. Macrovision says its new RipGuard technology will thwart most, but not all, of the current DVD ripping (copying) programs used to pirate DVDs. "RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer," said the firm. Macrovision said the new technology will work in "nearly all" current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard.The new technology will be welcomed by Hollywood film studios which are increasingly relying on revenue from DVD sales. "RipGuard works in nearly all players", this sounds like a familiar refrain. In the name of profit, lets risk irritating our customers with yet another annoying DRM scheme. It seems this futile battle will never end, and the sad part is all the honest consumers are paying for this type technology to be added to the products that they buy. The end result being less functionality, by Macrovisions own admission. How about a scheme that works in all players before release? Or better yet, just leave out the extra cost of Macrovision and charge a bit extra for the movie to offset the claimed loss in profits. You can read the whole story at the BBC News. Thanks also to hanns who used our news submit to tell us of this related story over at MSN! http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11365 DVD copy protection strengthened DVDs will be harder to copy thanks to new anti-piracy measures devised by copy protection firm Macrovision. The pirated DVD market is enormous because current copy protection was hacked more than five years ago. Macrovision says its new RipGuard technology will thwart most, but not all, of the current DVD ripping (copying) programs used to pirate DVDs. "RipGuard is designed to... reduce DVD ripping and the resulting supply of illegal peer to peer," said the firm. Macrovision said the new technology will work in "nearly all" current DVD players when applied to the discs, but it did not specify how many machines could have a problem with RipGuard. Some BBC News website users have expressed concerns that the new technology will mean that DVDs will not work on PCs running the operating system Linux. The new technology will be welcomed by Hollywood film studios which are increasingly relying on revenue from DVD sales. 'Digital hole' The film industry has stepped up efforts to fight DVD piracy in the last 12 months, taking legal action against websites which offer pirated copies of DVD movies for download. "Ultimately, we see RipGuard DVD... evolving beyond anti-piracy, and towards enablement of legitimate online transactions, interoperability in tomorrow's digital home, and the upcoming high-definition formats," said Steve Weinstein, executive vice president and general manager of Macrovision's Entertainment Technologies Group. Macrovision said RipGuard would also prevent against "rent, rip and return" - where people would rent a DVD, copy it and then return the original. RipGuard is expected to be rolled out on DVDs from the middle of 2005, the company said. The new system works specifically to block most ripping programs - if used, those programs will now most likely crash, the company said. Macrovision has said that Rip Guard can be updated if hackers find a way around the new anti-copying measures. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4266977.stm
New copy-proof DVDs on the way? By John Borland, CNET News.com Published on ZDNet News: February 15, 2005, 6:00 AM PT Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the failure of the copy-proofing on today's DVDs, which was broken in 1999. Courts have ordered that DVD-copying tools be taken off the market, but variations of the software remain widely available online. Macrovision executives said that even if it's not perfect, the new RipGuard DVD technology can prevent much of the copying done with such tools and can help bolster studios' DVD sales. "Encryption standards either work or they don't," said Adam Gervin, Macrovision's senior director of marketing, "Now the cat's out of the bag. (DVD sales) are going to be one of the main sources of revenue for Hollywood for a long time, so why leave billions of dollars on the table when you can do something about it?" The company could be hard pressed to break into the DVD protection market, which has historically been managed by companies or industry groups closely associated with the Hollywood studios themselves. However, studios have been deeply concerned by the failure of today's DVD copy protection and may be willing to experiment with an alternative if it proves practical. The original DVD copy-protection tool--called Content Scramble System--was developed by a technology coalition that included studio representatives. The tool is licensed by a group with close ties to Hollywood. A new coalition, which includes Warner Bros., Walt Disney, IBM, Sony, Microsoft and Intel, is working on another content-protection technology for next-generation DVDs. That technology called the Advanced Access Content System, which is not designed for today's DVDs, is being designed to let movies be moved around a home though a digital network. The group has said little about its progress since announcing the project last year, but companies involved have said they expect to have it ready in time for the first expected release of high-definition video on DVD late in 2005. Meanwhile, Macrovision is promoting its alternative. The company, which has worked with the studios in the past, was responsible for the technique that makes it difficult to copy movies from one VCR to another, and it has updated that technique to help prevent people from making copies of movies using the analog plugs on DVD players. The company is using a new version of that analog guard to create copy protection for video-on-demand services. That new guard will be included in TiVo devices and other set-top boxes beginning later this year. Macrovision's new product takes a different approach to antipiracy than it has taken for analog or audio CDs. Gervin said Macrovision engineers have spent several years looking at how various DVD-copying software packages work and have devised ways to tweak the encoding of a DVD to block most of them. That means the audio and video content itself requires no new hardware and isn't scrambled anew, as is the case with most rights-management techniques. Someone using one of the ripping tools on a protected DVD might simply find their software crashing, or be presented with error messages instead of a copy. Macrovision's analog copy-protection business means that it receives pre-market versions of most major DVD players in order to test for compatibility, and it has been performing RipGuard DVD tests on these machines for months. As a result, the company says it is confident that discs encoded with its new product will be playable on all major DVD player brands and PC drives. Gervin said that the technique would block most rippers, but not all, and could be easily updated for future discs as underground programmers find ways to work around RipGuard. If adopted, the technology could be a welcome financial shot in the arm for Macrovision. The company has seen its revenue from DVD copy protection fall over recent quarters and has increasingly been looking to other businesses to make up for the shortfall. http://msn.com.com/2100-9584_22-5576375.html?part=msn&subj=ns_2543&tag=mymsn
well then, this might get interesting. my daddy always told me if a man could make it then a man could brake it. i guess well have to wait and see. too bad uk lightning is on the side lines.
I am glad that Slysoft stays on top of its game. If they want to send me update notifications everyday, I will welcome them all. And quite frankly for the price - its is well worth it - the money saved on being able to protect our originals is tremendous. No one is going to keep going out and buying the same dvd they bought everytime the kids mess it up! Otherwise I would still be a VHS collector *L* Gamename - slysoft must think the way your dad did *L*
