

SOPA is also well documented to be a draconian piece of legislation. No need for Doom and Gloom to imagine the movie industry are doing what they can to run the ripper companies out of business. As reported here, DVDFab has similar problems. do not allow payments to Slysoft, (I think non-US Visa cards work), and everytime they find new methods of payments, it doesn't take long before that option is shut down as well. Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Paypal, etc. Slysoft are definately being targeted right now, and the goal is clearly to cripple their income stream.

I hope you're just being uninformed and naive here. Originally Posted by aero12 /forum/post/21321450 I think if content owners spent half the energy on keeping up with trends to supply media, as they do trying to stop the unstoppable, they would be better off. If I had marginal ethics I could have used that knoweledge to rip 300 dvds a month at blockbuster. That was the driving force in my learning how to use dvddecrypter. Now I've never endgaded in any of that, but I do recall when my kids destoryed DVDs being forced to pay full $25 a second time to replace them. Let's face it people are no longer selling boot dvd-rs, I've heard people are selling or even giving away to friends, whole 3tb dives full of 720mksvs. The same could happen if they completely shut down anydvd and dvdfab. Once they know how to defeat them the knowledge and temptation is there, unfortunately, to go whole hog and return no revenue for content. In the past some of these protection schemes have unintended consequences which can result in people defeating them to simply exercise their right to backup their media. Without advocating anything, just as an observation, I find most of the people I speak to about this kind of thing, from protection schemes on media, to making products like anydvd harder to acquire or effectively use, find, in that case, no ethical dilemma in getting copies of disks they already own in the "usual places."
