{"id":31,"date":"2005-02-15T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T23:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:10:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:10:50","slug":"macrovision-ripguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/macrovision-ripguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Macrovision RipGuard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMDb Studio Briefing sends us this lead today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2005-02-15\/#film5\">New Copy-Protection Software To Be Unveiled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alleged to prevent 97% of all copying software available. Their website has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrovision.com\/company\/news\/press\/newsdetail.jsp?id=Thu%20Nov%2011%2016:50:07%20PST%202004\">press release<\/a> dated November 11, 2004. Details are, predictably, a little thin. The press release acknowledges that the ease of ripping raw sectors from a DVD, decrypting them, and re-burning or re-compressing them. This technology purports to frustrate that process somehow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nExtensive tests showed that RipGuard affects the success of the most commonly-used ripping software products in the market. It has been effective in either completely obstructing the software or slowing it down to the point of futility. RipGuard applies a Unique Digital Framework for each title to ensure that this effectiveness lasts over time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;whatever that means. Watch for it, nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New DVD copy prevention system&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}