Yes. I have spotted it now on 3 titles (one from Germany, two from the U.S.).
Do you know who the publishers of those films are (or what movie studios)?
Free Zone was released by New Yorker Video (in region 1), which I've never heard of before.
I only have some .ifo files, no discs or packaging.
One other title certainly is from New Yorker films. IIRC they used RipGuard before, either this is a new try from Macrovision, or a new protection supplier.
either this is a new try from Macrovision, or a new protection supplier.
Strike 2 for them in either case.
I wonder if it hampers any freeware decrypters. In other words, I wonder if the intended target was something other than Anydvd.
In any case, Slysoft doesn't take very long to get us updates and that's all I care about.
Only if it comes from Sony...Hence my curiosity about the last couple weeks and whether they're going to adopt the Protect DVD Video protection for their discs and start to spread it out to other regions. If so, it proves that they haven't learned a damn thing.
I doubt Sony will use anything else than Arccos (they have their own company Sony DADC developing it). They probably just verifying, that the newest version works with Sony DVD players before deploying it...
Again, very unlikely. BD has probably 0.5% of the market share for home movies (other 0.5% is HD DVD).BAHAHAHAHA! ROFLMAO! You could be right. Either that or they're so busy trying to get BD+ to work that they've lost focus on the DVD market.
It does, but let's wait and see... the HD DVD camp still has a chance, ifI just wish the studios would make it a fair fight and release all content on both formats and let the market decide which one they want...Unfortunately, that's not going to happen and we're going to be forced kicking and screaming into the bluray camp because they have the most exclusives and studio support. It rather sucks if you ask me.
Sony is arrogant, yes, but not stupid either. They will have their main focus on "classic" DVDs, simply because there is so much money to be made (and they benefit from DVD license fees, if I am not mistaken).But I disagree about Sony not thinking BD is all the rage...they're so freaking arrogant that they truly believe everyone's either going to go buy a PS3 or a stand alone player because it's SOOOOO much better than DVD.
remember Disney/Fox and DVDs? They supported DIVX (the "pay per view" system).
It took Disney years before they started to make DVDs. Now they are making a fortune with it.
And, if you like cool movies, HD DVD isn't that bad at all. We have the small studios like the Weinstein's, which have released some really nice HD DVD exclusives, like Clerks 2, The Matador and Lucky # Slevin.
If you are clever, you can import a lot of titles which are BD exclusive in the US from other countries, like The Prestige (UK, Germany) or Terminator 2 (France).
And there are some "HD DVD only exclusives" from Europe not available in the US, like Arizona Dream, Mulholland Dr., Running Scared, Perfume - History of a murder, Enemy at the Gates, Ran, Renaissance, ...
amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr, and amazon.de are your friends.
Sony is arrogant, yes, but not stupid either. They will have their main focus on "classic" DVDs, simply because there is so much money to be made (and they benefit from DVD license fees, if I am not mistaken).
But they are very aggressively marketing BD, because in the long term they must get the huge investment back (like the losses they make with the PS3). I wish them luck. Not.
But how much money are they willing to put into copy protection development during the transition period? That's what I wonder. I'm sure they're pouring money into BD+ and getting that working, but, are they really going to do another iteration of ARccOS? It costs them uber bucks to make it, and a day for you to break it. (HAHAHAHA). This game gets expensive for them after a while...
Sure, but they are licensing Arccos to 3rd party studios as well, so they make money with it (Lions Gate isn't a part of Sony Pictures, is it?)
And who guarantees them that we won't break BD+ a few days *before* the official release, too? Like we did it with AACS v3?
hint, hint ... hehe!The AACS LA even agrees this is a perfectly fine idea, but, the implementation of their DRM ridden copy management crap isn't done yet so I can't do that on titles I already own. One more thorn in my side. (Of course, if the software to make such a conversion was available already, I WOULD be able to do so thanks to AnyDVD HD...hint hint )