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235frank
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Releasing the source code is not an option in my opinion and would do more harm than good.
AnyDVD's main advantage was the 'bad guys' didn't know how the 'magic' was done. Personally, I'd rather keep it that way.
That's at best an argument in favor of not releasing the code for the Bluray component. DVDs aren't something that they can mess with to that extent. The discs still have to be readable in DVD players, which is a huge constraint on what they can and can't do to prevent people from ripping the discs. The whole standard was created based upon the assumption that disks wouldn't get large enough to allow people to rip the discs.
Look at the game crack crews if you think this is such a bad idea. The rate at which the crackers crack games is much faster than the rate at which the developers are able to prevent the cracks. And for media that's stored on read only memory, any copies already out in the wild can't be uncracked.
If they don't want to release the whole thing, fine, but at least release the code that allows circumvention of the region encoding. I don't see many options for avoiding that and it is something that's entirely used for using materials that are legally purchased.