RealNetworks DVD ripper
p2pnet news view | Music:- RealNetworks says it’ll be launching RealDVD to allow Windows users rip entire DVDs.
Real is, “touting that this is licensed DVD software that saves a secure copy of the DVD to user’s hard drive, with the CSS encryption intact, which means normal piracy/sharing of this video will not be easy,” says paidContent.
“Users will be able to view the ripped DVD on one computer and four others, as long as they download and pay for the software (less money: $20 for those four licenses) on those five others and have the same login.”
Oh.
But it doesn’t work with Blu-Ray or HD DVD.
Oh.
How will be rights holders take this news?
Quoting the New York Times, Real only started notifying the studios last week, says paidContent.
Oh.
paidContent – RealNetworks Launching DVD Ripping Service; Will It Make Any Ripples?, September 7, 2008
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September 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Who would want such trash?
September 8th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Are they really, genuinely serious?
Why the hell would anyone PAY for a ripper with not only all these restrictions but lack of any future proofing?
I know executives are generally out of touch with the real world but come on…
September 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
FAIL.
SlySoft software offers way more for way less!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
“which means normal piracy/sharing of this video will not be easy”
And neither will creating backup copies, archiving, encoding to a smaller file size for easier storage, or playback on a portable device or wifi home entertainment system, which begs the question:
Why the fuck would anyone want this software in the first place?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Hello there! Lacy from Realnetworks here, and I can tell from your comments that you guys are totally stoked about the product… Heh.
Ok, so here’s the deal, we’re not looking to take super tech savvy people away from what they already use to rip their DVDs. It’s just never going to appeal to your crowd. But there are a lot of people out there who don’t know how to do all of that stuff and want something simple that will make traveling with their kids easier, make that flight from SeaTac to JFK a little more tolerable- those are the people that might benefit. We had to make it hard to re-encode to different formats to keep it legal. I know it’s not the answer you wanted, but we have rules we have to follow. We still think it’s a cool product and it works, and it’s legal.
April 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Ummm…sorry Lacy but what could be easier even for a novice than literally 1-3 click software that converts then burns almost any format? There’s several out there now. PAY to do what this software says it will with the limitations? Can’t imagine someone doing so (although some people will do anything). Good luck with it…