Ripping streaming video

[ddjmagic]

@moviemadness please do not double post minutes apart. Use the edit link below your post instead.

Sometime users want to reply in separate posts. Whats the issue/problem? Please edit all Pete's/James post where they do exactly the same thing.

 

[Adbear]

But AnyDVD only needs to hack a disc once, whereas a streaming video, whether it was released recently or long ago, may have its copy-protection altered again and again, thus requiring you to hack it again and again. To your second point, saving a video stream from a remote server still involves defeating the various mechanisms that prevent you from saving it and/or make it difficult for you to save it. No such problem with a disc.

Your original post was to say that you'd never seen a video ripped from commercial streaming video, I then went on to point out that there are many out there and are still being ripped. whether that continues long into the future isn't the point, the point is that it is available now and has been for years, and as it stands will be for the next few years

 

[moviemadness]

Your original post was to say that you'd never seen a video ripped from commercial streaming video, I then went on to point out that there are many out there and are still being ripped. whether that continues long into the future isn't the point, the point is that it is available now and has been for years, and as it stands will be for the next few years

Yes, it is and will be available, but it is no longer as prevalent and easily available. When a disc is ripped, it is ripped *for good*. Five or 10 years from now, we will still be able to rip that particular disc. Even when an upload is removed, somebody else can still rip that particular disc with the SAME method years from now and upload it again. The result is that any particular movie is more likely to have an upload as long as it came from a disc, making it easier to find a particular movie at ANY time. This is decidedly not true with streaming video. Once you hacked it and uploaded it, after a certain time when the upload is gone and somebody wants to hack and upload it again, he or she may have to find another hacking method because the studio has altered the DRM. THAT is the difference between disc and streaming, and how it affects DRM-breaking. The result is fewer hacks and fewer uploads, which makes it harder to find the uploads. Would a studio go back and re-press a disc made 10 years ago with new DRM? Hardly. That's why AnyDVD never has to face the challenge of going back and re-hack the same disc all over again. But a studio can alter DRM for any streaming video anytime, posing almost exponentially greater challenges to hackers.