Popular Blu-Ray Ripping Software Shuts Down Following Legal Pressure

heatlesssun said:
Also true particularly for BDs that even have trouble in commercial BD players. My old Sony whatever BD in the bedroom it is not connect to the Internet and never been updated and it wouldn't play "Specter". But it did play using PowerDVD which is actually a great player I think.
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I think I have an old version of that software. My version was the one that worked with both DVD and HD DVD, but I haven't used it in years. I generally play movies (even disks) using AnyDVD and Kodi (XBMC).
 
A lot of pissed off people. The music and video industries keep bitching about lost sales, etc., then they continue to piss off their customers. This was the wrong way to go about fighting piracy.

A lot of people don't care. They'd never use the product. But, it's pissing off that segment. The knowledgeable segment that recommends things to other people. If we aren't as open to supporting these guys, then others won't be, either.

MPAA hasn't done much, if anything at all, to give good PR to the consumer. It's always anti-consumer - treats everyone like a pirate, DRM, litigate to stop Grandma from watching Inside Out... It's a sad organization.

RIAA isn't much better. Neither organization is doing anything to better their industry from a consumer standpoint. It's pushing users away, then blaming them for being pirates.

"You are all pirates! I don't care if it was for personal use, you're a pirate for ripping that movie!". Being treated like a criminal keeps me from frequenting several stores (Excuse me, sir. I'll need to see your receipt. I know I just watched you check out, but I need to check.). It also stops me from watching a physical copy of a movie at times. I don't have time for 8 minutes of anti-piracy videos, FBI warnings, etc.. If I rip the movie, I get the movie and none of the other BS. Don't treat me like a criminal, and I won't become one (by MPAA's definition only, apparently).
 
Jarod888 said:
If you go to the Slysoft forms and look for a user mike20021969 and then check his signature, he has linked to the latest official version...
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THANK YOU!!

If it weren't for slysoft, I wouldn't have bought ANY blu rays. I just bought another $250 of them. I guess that is the last of any movies I will ever buy for a looong time I guess. Your loss, entertainment industry. Great way to bite yourself in the butt for a company helping you to make money... LOL
 
I use DVDFAB's free decrypting software to decrypt and copy the entire contents of DVD's and BD's. Then I use handbrake to turn them to a single video file. This works really well and consistently, and has for many years. The free decrypter can sometimes take a few months to catch up to modern protections, but it almost always gets there eventually.
 
Ruined my day.. This will increase bit torrent traffic. I will not buy any physical media if I cannot rip it to my server. Screw the entertainment aholes.
 
caddys83 said:
Make a topic in Genmay and say it!:D
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AnyDVD war für Gewinne. Nicht überrascht sie gingen nach ihnen zuerst.
Es gibt andere Methoden, die genauso gut funktionieren und sind Open Source. Aber ich bin zurückhaltend , Namen zu nennen jetzt Tage .

OH. I thought you said German.
 
zalazin said:
Ruined my day.. This will increase bit torrent traffic. I will not buy any physical media if I cannot rip it to my server. Screw the entertainment aholes.
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They just eliminated any reason for me to buy Blu-Ray's.
Back to the torrents.....
 
Frozen8950 said:
I liked that I could move my stack of legally purchased blurays to my Synology box. It made watching movies so much easier.
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I've been collecting movies on DVD since I purchased my first DVD player in the mid 90s.
I really got sick of lending discs out to received them back scratched, or just an empty case. Or finding them with grape jelly and greasy finger prints all over them on them after "the kids" were watching movies.
I started ripping my DVD collection with DVDShrink when it first hit. That was good but it compressed the video further. I went to a MP4 rip after that with HandBrake.
 
I can't wait to see how much they reduce the price of physical disks, now that all the evil pirates are gone.
 
I can't watch blu rays without anydvd. Since buying a disc gives you rights to view the movie, I guess I could buy the DVD or VHS and download the HD version to watch... So I guess I'm not totally blocked from buying movies.
 
shspvr said:
There alway DVDfab
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And they are located in China, so good luck getting Government officials to twist those arms. You already "cannot" get the full version in the US, but that doesn't mean you can't use a VPN to download from a country that the MPAA doesn't control
 
vertices said:
7.6.9.0 Final is out there.
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Probably can't be activated now. Ah, yes. Good ol' software activation.

Slysoft probably made millions off this. I suspect they don't much care really.
 
I've been to Antiqua. Frankly, it was the nicest port visit I ever had. Nice people, nice Casino. Cheap drinks :)
 
It's always been hilarious to me over the years that while it is legal to make a backup of DVD and Blu-ray media (which is encrypted content) the tools to do so are illegal - Steve pointed that out in the OP and it's still hilarious to this day. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, geez. :D

The silly bullshit about all this is now AnyDVD's remaining version will be pirated 100x more than it already was, along with whatever crack is necessary to stop the need for contacting SlySoft for activation, and the process will just continue as time passes.

Protip for the movie studios and anybody else involved with such lawsuits:

YOU LOST A LONG TIME AGO, DUDES.
 
When US laws can’t reach a country, bribe the US government to bully the country by applying sanctions and other economic hardships. Do as we say or we will send your country into an unrecoverable economic freefall. Die by the pen instead of the sword.
 
So I have a question. Since slysoft seems to not exist any more... Does that mean that everybody can download it for free now that it is no longer licensed? I know a people who don't use it since they didn't buy it.
 
ShagnWagn said:
So I have a question. Since slysoft seems to not exist any more... Does that mean that everybody can download it for free now that it is no longer licensed? I know a people who don't use it since they didn't buy it.
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That is a big topic right now. Hopefully they will release their last version as freeware to travel and survive in the P2P networks. If not and Slysoft closes their doors completely. No contact, no response, no announcement of what they intend to do with their copyrights, then it becomes an orphaned work and remains in copyright limbo.
 
NeghVar said:
That is a big topic right now. Hopefully they will release their last version as freeware to travel and survive in the P2P networks. If not and Slysoft closes their doors completely. No contact, no response, no announcement of what they intend to do with their copyrights, then it becomes an orphaned work and remains in copyright limbo.
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So slysoft could sue or prosecute someone for using their software, even though the company doesn't exist? That seems odd. I would assume that when a company disappears (especially due to a forced hand) that all of its software becomes freeware.
 
ShagnWagn said:
So slysoft could sue or prosecute someone for using their software, even though the company doesn't exist? That seems odd. I would assume that when a company disappears (especially due to a forced hand) that all of its software becomes freeware.
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Technically, yes. There could also be an entity that purchases Slysoft's assets, which include intellectual property. Though it would be inadvisable to market Slysoft's works since that is what got them in trouble in the first place. This entity could make a revenue stream similar to that of patent trolls by threatening to sue suspected infringers unless they pay $3000 to the entity as an out-of-court settlement.
 
Another interesting tidbit of info from one of the devs at Slysoft

Note for the technical skilled: The servers are still running, probably as long as the bills are paid, but their DNS entries are removed.
If you have a router with a DNS proxy or can edit your Windows hosts file, you can add a key.slysoft.com with an IP address for one of the key server proxies.
I don't know how long the servers will continue to run.
 
I am saddened at this news. I had a lifetime upgrade key. It is now invalidated. Curse you movie industry!
 
This royally bites. Considering I buy several Blu-Ray's a month -- or at least USED to -- all this does is mean I won't be buying them anymore. I typically watch them on the PC in my office while working or transfer them to my HTPC for viewing upstairs. I don't OWN a Blu-Ray player and the only BDRW I have is on the PC in my office -- and the second screen on the PC in my office is not connected via HDCP and PowerDVD won't LET me watch movies on it, only on the main screen that is connected via HDMI. Something really needs to be done to stop the entertainment industry from ruling this country.
 
I have a lifetime update with them. So needless to say I'll now spend my life working to get Copyrights returned to the US Constitutional period of ... 7 Years. Period.
 
Slysoft, if they really are going to be gone, need to publish the code into the public domain. Genie is out of the bottle, fuck you MPAA. I'll never ever buy a dvd for the rest of my life.
 
That's what I'd do. Oh, can't sell my software. No problem. I'll open up a site in Russia, have it open to the world, and give out the software for free.
 
I built a new HTPC. I need to figure out how to license their software. I think their software requires a stupid server to active the crap? Thank you, bullcrap online registration requirement. So we are screwed by them once their server goes down? This proves that online requirement is bull. Can you imagine if Steam/Valve shuts their doors? Don't say it can't happen. Online requirement is BS.
I still support slysoft. I'm just venting my frustration with online registration to make a product work. A HTPC shouldn't need online requirement to work or play single-player-only games. :(
 
SlySoft needs to move to Romania or some other country that the USA can't control !
 
ShagnWagn said:
So slysoft could sue or prosecute someone for using their software, even though the company doesn't exist? That seems odd. I would assume that when a company disappears (especially due to a forced hand) that all of its software becomes freeware.
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IANAL but I can't imagine that's true even in the slightest. Just because a company goes out of business can't possibly make all their software "free" all of a sudden. Someone still owns it.

Regardless, this is bad news and I echo what other people are saying. This will actually increase "piracy".
 
ShagnWagn said:
I built a new HTPC. I need to figure out how to license their software. I think their software requires a stupid server to active the crap? Thank you, bullcrap online registration requirement. So we are screwed by them once their server goes down? This proves that online requirement is bull. Can you imagine if Steam/Valve shuts their doors? Don't say it can't happen. Online requirement is BS.
I still support slysoft. I'm just venting my frustration with online registration to make a product work. A HTPC shouldn't need online requirement to work or play single-player-only games. :(
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There is a lot of discussion about this. I believe that as long as you have the reg file, you can copy it to yourslysoft directory and then double click it. It should register the program after a reboot. The biggest problem right now is access to the online decryption library. Due to the fact that slysoft removed the DNS entries from the servers, the only way to get to it is edit your host file and input the IP address of the servers. For now, that seems to be working, although I have not tried it. What sysoft needs to do is release that database publically. One of the main reasons they will likely not release the source code of the software is because that would make it far easier for the movie companies to see how they were getting around the protections and block them. Hopefully, they are able to relocate or change names and continue to work. That seems unlikel, though. It would be nice if the released a verified final version without any licence requirement so that anyone and everyone could use it. They could also partner with dvdfab in some way, maybe.
There is a very interesting read on their forms about what will and will not work going forward.
 
Jarod888 said:
There is a lot of discussion about this. I believe that as long as you have the reg file, you can copy it to yourslysoft directory and then double click it. It should register the program after a reboot. The biggest problem right now is access to the online decryption library. Due to the fact that slysoft removed the DNS entries from the servers, the only way to get to it is edit your host file and input the IP address of the servers. For now, that seems to be working, although I have not tried it. What sysoft needs to do is release that database publically. One of the main reasons they will likely not release the source code of the software is because that would make it far easier for the movie companies to see how they were getting around the protections and block them. Hopefully, they are able to relocate or change names and continue to work. That seems unlikel, though. It would be nice if the released a verified final version without any licence requirement so that anyone and everyone could use it. They could also partner with dvdfab in some way, maybe.
There is a very interesting read on their forms about what will and will not work going forward.
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So the decryption stuff isn't stored locally?
 
nilepez said:
So the decryption stuff isn't stored locally?
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For DVD's and some BluRays it is. There is a secondary part for new protections that was online. It made decrypting faster. it is my understanding that this database gets cached locally for most things. I think as you rip a movie, it builds the local cache to use for the next one and so on. Here is a direct quote from one of the developers of the product:

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This depends on the disc / protection.
DVDs: All DVDs should continue work. OPD is only used to speed up things, it is optional.
HD-DVDs: All work.
Blu-Ray AACS: AnyDVD contains data for roughly 130000 discs, these will continue to work. Discs not included in AnyDVD will need the OPD. OPD results will be cached locally, if you copy the cache, you can move it to another PC.
Blu-Ray BD+, 20th Century Fox: Recent discs (1-2 years?) need OPD. Older titles work. OPD results will be cached locally, if you copy the cache, you can move it to another PC.
Blu-Ray Java protection (mostly Lionsgate): Recent discs (1 year?) need OPD. Older titles work. OPD results are not cached.
Blu-ray cinavia: Will continue to work with current players & software.

Note for the technical skilled: The servers are still running, probably as long as the bills are paid, but their DNS entries are removed.
If you have a router with a DNS proxy or can edit your Windows hosts file, you can add a key.slysoft.com with an IP address for one of the key server proxies.
I don't know how long the servers will continue to run.

dvd4fun said: ↑
If no registration/validation servers are responding, will we be able to install the last version on our new machines in the future?
There are no registration/validation servers. I always insisted, that we don't follow the trend with "key authentication". AnyDVD and the key is not bound to your hardware. As long as you have your keyfile, you can install it on your PC.

Hope this helps."
 
To add to the above, the location of the cached local copy of the database is: "C:\ProgramData\SlySoft\AnyDVD\Cache" adds a .dt1 file every time AnyDVDHD accesses the BD+ online database

Here is a bit more info...

This can be done by starting Notepad as administrator. To do so, right-click the Notepad icon and select ‘Run as Administrator’. When Notepad has started open the ‘hosts file’ by navigating to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

Then add to that file the following line: [IP address of the key server] key.slysoft.com

And save the file.
 
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Jarod888 said:
To add to the above, the location of the cached local copy of the database is: "C:\ProgramData\SlySoft\AnyDVD\Cache" adds a .dt1 file every time AnyDVDHD accesses the BD+ online database

Here is a bit more info...

This can be done by starting Notepad as administrator. To do so, right-click the Notepad icon and select ‘Run as Administrator’. When Notepad has started open the ‘hosts file’ by navigating to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc.

Then add to that file the following line: [IP address of the key server] key.slysoft.com

And save the file.
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1. How do you get a single domain (key.slysoft.com) to route to 3 different IPs? I've done a single IP, but not more than that.
2. is there a way to grab the entire OPD, or does that require you to insert every disk that might use it?
 
Why do I have a feeling that some people bitching here never actually purchased movies to begin with.
 
Could also be a convenient excuse to cut off support for a dying product. I've been using MakeMKV for ages myself.
 
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