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- CloneDVD mobile (exe)
- CloneDVD mobile converts your DVD movies quickly and easily into a format that your mobile equipment (Sony PSP, Apple iPod Video, iAudio X5, Creative Labs ZEN Vision, etc) can play. You can also convert your DVDs to other file formats, such as DivX, XviD, AVI, and MP4. Watch your movies...
- Tags: Mobile, SlySoft, CloneDVD Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-24
- Game Jackal Pro (exe)
- Game Jackal Pro is the ultimate "must have" killer app for the PC gamer! If you, like most gamers, find it annoying looking for and inserting the CD-ROM for your favorite game each time you play it, then Game Jackal Pro is for you. Keeping your gaming investment safe: One...
- Tags: Gamer, SlySoft, Game Jackal Pro, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-24
- Hooray! Blu-ray BD+ hacked!
- The good folks at SlySoft announced last week that they'd broken the BD+ copy protection scheme: With today's release of version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD it is now also possible to make backup security copies of Blu-ray discs protected with BD+. Cool....
- Tags: Hollywood, Blu-ray, Copy Protection, SlySoft, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- SlySoft cracks Blu-ray BD encryption
- SlySoft cracks Blu-ray BD encryption"BD+ won't be breached for 10 years"Nothing like a challenge to get people moving. I wonder how those studios who went with Sony instead of Toshiba because of their "better" security feel now.Couldn't happen to a better standard.By Better I mean absolutely ridiculous in...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), SECURITY, Digital media, SlySoft, encryption, disc, movie
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- SlySoft cracks Blu-ray BD+ encryption
- [UPDATE 03/26/08 - Exercising its "Right to Reply" I have the following to share from Macrovision Corp, the company who currently owns the rights to BD+ technology: "Macrovision does not comment on specific techniques or procedures that may directly impact the BD+ security technology. BD+ is a...
- Tags: Blu-ray Disc, Macrovision Corp., Crack, Encryption, SlySoft, Blu-ray BD+, Blu-Ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?
- Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?Expected to be unbreakable?By whom? All the decryption keys are in the playback device, it's just a matter of probing for them.I've yet to read of Blu-Ray hurting the consumer (except for all the usual 'regions' garbage) in an obvious way e.g. key rejection causing...
- Tags: copy protection
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- AACS broken - before it's patched!
- AACS, the copy-protection scheme used on HD DVD discs has been broken again. But what's different this time is that it's been broken six days before the new, updated version is released.It's SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD, which are behind this new crack. The latest beta version of AnyDVD HD, version...
- Tags: DRM, Blu-ray, HD-DVD
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
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- Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks
- It's a Friday (again!) so that means time for another Friday Rant! Today a cautionary tale for those of you buying HD DVD players and discs. If you've been looking at the slew of cheap HD DVD discs and players on the market and feel that this...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- News to know: HTC Shift; Airport firmware; Microsoft mesh; Novell; VoIP
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Apple's security update breaks printer drivers, Instant Hijack component Airport firmware update enables AirDisk backups Mary Jo Foley: Whatever happened to Microsoft's 'other' mesh projects? Paula Rooney: Novell's SUSE Linux 11 to come in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Novell Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Firmware, E-mail, Telephony, Hd Dvd, Printers, Productivity, VOIP, Open Source, Online Communications, Networking, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Blu-ray BD+ copy protection defeated?
- Has the Blu-ray BD+ copy protection mechanism been defeated? This press release by SlySoft seems to indicate that it has: AnyDVD goes AACS MKBv4 SlySoft was recently honoured by AACS-LA, being declared as public enemy number one in the ongoing battle for copyright protection. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Blu-ray, Copy Protection, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Latest AACS Processing Key released
- The cat and mouse game between the hackers and the AACS Licensing Authority continues as the latest MKB v3 Processing Key is released onto the web.This latest key can be used to decrypt all newly released (and future releases, for a while at least) HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. This...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Sony really sucks at DRM
- Sony just keeps on running into all sorts of copy protection hassles. Now new DVDs such as Casino Royale and Stranger Than Fiction are refusing to work in certain DVD players - and at least one Sony DVD player is affected.Ive done a bit of investigating and it seems...
- Tags: DRM, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Microsoft confirms Vista OEM hack
- Microsoft confirms Vista OEM hackwhy would anyone crack windoze vista?i still haven't seen the need for a downgrade...Really the only story here is that MS WANTS them to crack the disks. MSneeds to have pirated disks available for free. They WANT the people in China that will NOT pay the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital rights management (DRM), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft confirms Vista, Microsoft Confirms, digital-rights management, OEM, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- AnyDVD HD defeats AACS on HD-DVDs
- The first commercial product capable of defeating AACS DRM on HD-DVD discs has been released.AnyDVD HD by SlySoft packs a lot of power into a small, easy to use program.Same features as regular AnyDVD Removes encryption AACS from HD-DVDs Watch movies over digital display connection, without HDCP compliant graphics card...
- Tags: DRM, HD-DVD
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- AACS - BUSTED!
- [Updated: Feb 13, 2007 @ 4.15 pm] Ive just found out that SlySoft have a beta version of AnyDVD HD in the pipeline. This application is able to rip HD-DVDs (but not Blu-ray discs). Details here and here. AACS took years to develop and millions of dollars to...
- Tags: In the news, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Protect DVD-Video - A slap in the face for PC and Media Center owners
- The movie industry seems determined to continue on a course where it happily erodes the rights of legitimate users, all in the name of securing profits. The latest example of this comes in the form of a DVD copy protection technology called Protect DVD-Video which actually prevents a DVD being played...
- Tags: Protect, DVD, copy protection, DVD-Video, Protect DVD-Video
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- SlySoft CloneDVD Mobile
- So now that you have a video iPod, how do you load videos on it? There's the iTunes Music Store and Google Video, but what about content from DVDs you already own? SlySoft's CloneDVD Mobile offers an easy way to create compressed videos that play on the iPod, the Sony...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, mobile marketing, DVD, CloneDVD Mobile, video
- Product reviews 2006-03-29
- Spam-happy shoppers love stolen software
- Spam-happy shoppers love stolen softwareAlways hard to seperate the Hookers from the Johns.It's always been the problem...Stolen or Parallel import?Are we talking counterfeit or simply parallel imported software?I don't believe 20% buy the software and the ones that are, are they buying counterfeit or simply imported grey market stuff? As...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Levi, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-12-10
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