DVD Security

[MikeD83]

Hello,
Tonight I rented AI-Artificial Intelligence on DVD to watch on my computer (actually I hookep up my TV to my geforce 2 tv-out but thats neither here nor there). However, during the movie there was a sudden stop of video (and fragmentation) several times during the movie. It appears the company added this security feature so that if you tried to rip the DVD you would be unsuccessful.

My first question is: Is there a way to get around this? I mean, it is quite annoying to be lying down into the movie and then have to stop and seek past the secure parts.

My second question is: Isn't there something illegal about the DVD companies doing this? I am a perfectly legitimate customer, why are they profiling computer users into criminals and not allowing us to view the movies as everyone else?

 

[MrBond]

The legality of copy protection is still out, I guess that one guy who released the first copy protected CD got a lawsuit for something. Companies will continue to do so until a judge tells them otherwise I suppose.

Are you sure it wasn't just a bad DVD? I had that problem with my copy of "Live and Let Die", I took it out of the drive, blew it off, and it worked fine. Might try that too.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Dude, I think you just have some dust or something on yer DVD (or it might just be one of those misc DVD issues that some discs/players have). AFAIK the only copy protection on a DVD is Macrovision (same thing thats on commercial VHS tapes) to keep you from hookin' the DVD player into the VCR and copying the DVD to VHS.


Lethal

 

[MikeD83]

Are you sure it wasn't just a bad DVD?

I cleaned the DVD with my disk cleaner and it still stopped at the same parts.

 

[MikeD83]

Dude, I think you just have some dust or something on yer DVD (or it might just be one of those misc DVD issues that some discs/players have). AFAIK the only copy protection on a DVD is Macrovision (same thing thats on commercial VHS tapes) to keep you from hookin' the DVD player into the VCR and copying the DVD to VHS.


Sorry dude, rent The Fast and The Furious. The whole DVD uses the encrption that I talk about in AI.
- Mike

 

[Wolfsraider]

<< Sorry dude, rent The Fast and The Furious. The whole DVD uses the encrption that I talk about in AI. >>



i've rented that one and i never noticed anything out of the ordinary:Q

it could be possible, as my dvd is only 12x, but my other computer uses a 8x, no problems there on that movie. also i have a standalone dvd player and it played there fine too so maybe there is more here than meets the eye ?
did you see this on anyone else's computer? or did it happen to just yours?

just a thought it maybe something specific to your computer?

were you watching the movie or were you ripping it?

the reason i'm asking is this:
a while back i had the same problems on an older computer where the laser was heating the disc up and causing fragmentation (blocks and distortions) during playing a movie but it was a problem with the player not the copyright protection as the drive failed and i replaced it to find that the same movies played fine after that.

hope this helps

 

[Duvie]

First of all it only takes 1x dvd to play a movie....

I think it is likely a software glitch with the nvidia tv out drivers and OS....There is no new security feature that I have heard of and I frequent many sites where this would have been discussed...BOth AI and Fast and the FUrious have been out for awhile and I don;'t remember reading ppl complaining about ripping them successfully....

I can confirm that in about 2 weeks as I ordered F and the F....

 

[Diable]

<< Hello,
Tonight I rented AI-Artificial Intelligence on DVD to watch on my computer (actually I hookep up my TV to my geforce 2 tv-out but thats neither here nor there). However, during the movie there was a sudden stop of video (and fragmentation) several times during the movie. It appears the company added this security feature so that if you tried to rip the DVD you would be unsuccessful. >>



If it does have some new security features they don't work because I downloaded a 3 cd SVCD of AI a week before the DVD was released. You probably got a bad disk.

 

[MikeD83]

WoW... seems the problem is on my end.
Basicly, what I see is a pattern of smal squares that fill the screen. It happens only occasionally. However, it usually happens at the same spot on a DVD. I've tried a couple DVDs too. It's important to note that I will have this problem even if I'm not using the TV-out.
- Mike

Here's my equipment:

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz
256MB PC133 Crucial
Hecules Geforce 2 MX
Creative Labs Live! MP3+ 5.1

Drive: Delta 12x DVD drive
OS: Windows XP Pro
software: Cyberlink PowerDVD 3.0 - Patched
driver: Nvidia Detonator 23.11

 

[LethalWolfe]

Have you tried playing the "problem" DVDs on someone else computer? I really think yer having an issue somewhere for two reasons:

1. If there was some new DVD copy protection everyone would know about it. Heck, when copy protected CDs were still in the planning phase everyone know about them.

2. If it was some sort of new copy protection the whole movie would play messed up, not just parts of it. I mean, it's not like a game CD where you can foul a very small percentage of the data thus rendering the disc copy proof (in theroy) because the game needs every byte of data in order to run. If you foul a small percentage of a DVD then you have a minute or so of funky video, but you have 87 minutes of usable video (assuming the hypothetical movie is 90min long). See what I mean? Or am I not making sense 'cause it's almost 5am here and I really should be in bed...


Lethal

P.S. Why in the hell would I want to rent The Fast and the Furious... that movie was horrible. It was much better when it was called Point Break

EDIT: spelling