
However, for legal reasons, ImgBurn does not have the ability to circumvent copy protections of encrypted DVDs. On October 4, 2005, Lightning UK! continued the development of the burning engine used by DVD Decrypter in his new tool, ImgBurn. In 2010 the Librarian of Congress instituted a DMCA exemption which protects circumvention of CSS protection under certain circumstances.
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In the "321" case, Federal District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California, ruled that the backup copies made with software such as DVD Decrypter are legal but that distribution of the software used to make them is illegal. However, this provision of United States law conflicts with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibition of so-called "circumvention measures" of copy protections. you may need to use ripping software such DVD Decrypter to extract the VIDEOTS. Under United States federal law, making a backup copy of a DVD-Video or an audio CD by a consumer is legal under fair use protection. Dual-layer DVD+/-R has data storage up to 8.54 gigabytes per disc. On November 27, 2005,, a Finnish website, announced that it complied with a letter received from Macrovision demanding that DVD Decrypter be taken down from its site.
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By June 7, 2005, a mirror site was up, which allowed people to download the final version (3.5.4.0). He later stated it was within his best interests to comply with the letter, and stopped development of the program. You can upload entire DVDs or only certain portions of the disc with the program. It bypasses the DVD copy encryption or protection.
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On June 6, 2005, the developer, Lightning UK!, announced via the CD Freaks website that he received a cease and desist letter from Macrovision. DVD Decrypter is a free software program with a simple user interface. Decrypting DVDs refers to technology that is applied by an application or a program on the DVD hardware. In countries without similar laws there may not be any legal restrictions. To be exact, the DVD Decrypter is a program designed to let people make backups of their DVDs onto a computer or CD. WildFire CD Ripper is pulling out the data (music) directly in digital format from an Audio CD this kind of software is in general known as a CD ripper or a CDDA utility. It also removes Macrovision content protection, CSS, region codes, and user operation prohibition.Īs DVD Decrypter facilitates the removal of copy restrictions, certain uses may be illegal under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act unless making copies that are covered under the Fair Use doctrine (or in some cases illegal even when making copies under fair use). The software also allows a copy of a region-specific DVD to be made region free. The program can also record images to disc - functionality that the author has now incorporated into a separate product called ImgBurn. It can be used to make a copy of any DVD protected with Content Scrambling System (CSS). At the Wayback Machine (archived June 3, 2005)ĭVD Decrypter is a deprecated software application for Microsoft Windows that can create backup disk images of the DVD-Video structure of DVDs.
