Windows only: Freeware application DVD43 decrypts DVDs and CDs, removing most copy protections schemes so you can interact with the media using whatever ripping or copying application you please ...

The Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Authority (the dudes in charge of HD DVD copy protection measures) has confirmed that the security measures of certain HD DVDs has been cracked.

When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad scramble may ensue--not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play ...

RealNetworks will soon let users rip DVDs to their hard drives -- legally. The company will be unveiling the RealDVD software at Monday's DEMOfall conference in San Diego, but CNET got an early ...

You pay good money for your DVDs, but they're hardly the only format you need these days. These five ripping tools ensure you can back them up, keep them on your media server, and load them on ...

Here’s how it works. Another blow to those concerned with content protection and piracy in the HD realm came last week when SlySoft began offering AnyDVD HD, a $79 program that cracks encrypted HD-DVD ...

The directive’s Article 6, covering ‘technical protection measures’, allows criminal prosecution for anyone trying to avoid copy restriction measures, such as DVD region locks. Consumers ...

The latest example of this comes in the form of a DVD copy protection technology called Protect DVD-Video which actually prevents a DVD being played on a Windows PC using Windows Media Player ...

PARIS – A French court has ordered DVD vendors to pull copies of the David Lynch film "Mulholland Drive" (search) off store shelves in France as part of an unprecedented ruling against copy ...

No wonder everyone pirates their movies. -Ron I am writing in response to Gerry Block's article on Next-Gen DVD copy-protection. I just wanted to send my positive feedback on an important and very ...

WASHINGTON — With DVD use growing rapidly worldwide — and computer hackers becoming more and more brazen in developing programs that circumvent copy protection — plans to bolster disc ...