Divx & Drm

[MikeSouth]

I could be wrong but I use DIVX and I am unaware of any methodology to DRM it.

[greyhound]

I could be wrong but I use DIVX and I am unaware of any methodology to DRM it.

Believe me - it is possible! I have a couple of these files.
How the methodology works, I do not know.

[franklynxxx]

Here is an OCR scan of an editorial from July '08 MaximumPC magazine

Getting Away
(from DMCA)
S ummer is upon us, and it's a perfect time to
take a fair-use vacation.
. . . . . . Here in America you can buy plenty of
DVDs, but if you want to copy them for personal
use or run them on Linux, it's another story: You'll
be breaking U.5..Iaw. To make that backup of your
kid's favorite Disney movie before it gets covered in
blue marker, consider going somewhere you won''t
go to jail, for the act.
. . . . . . Who doesn't love a Caribbean island? Imagine
yourseIf on a beach in Antiigua with a drink that
comes in a hollow coconut. Beautiful women
walk by. The sun begins to set, and you've just
finished importing your DVD collection to a hard
drive. Antigua and Barbuda is home to SlySoft,
the maker of AnyDVD. a program that sits in the
background of your computer and quietly removes
copy protection from DVDs. including HD formats.
As SlySoft was doing its thing in 2007. in the
United States the AACS licensing Authority was
threatening to sue Digg for publishing a number -
the HD DYD encryption key.
. . . . . . Or maybe you're a do-it-yourselfer who can't
take the heat. Consider a trip to Norway, where
you can roll your own DRM breaker, In 2002,
Norwegian courts acquitted Jon Johansen of
charges stemming from the creation of DeCSS,
which stripped copy protection off DVDs so he
could play them on his Linux box. By contrast,
back in the U.S., a court convicted 2600 magazine
for linking to DeCSS,
. . . . . . Perhaps you're a pedagogical type with a
penchant for long days and vodka. Russia's your
spot. In 2001, Moscovite Dmitri Sklyarov pre-
sented a fIaw in Adobe's eBook security at Black
Hat in Las Vegas. This information didn't stay in
Vegas-Adobe had him arrested. Back in Mother
Russia, telling people now to circumvent Adobe's
weak protection isn't illegal. After a harrowing
ordeal. Sklyarov was allowed to return home,
where he continued his research in peace.
. . . . . . Turns out none of these vacations is about
piracy. They violate the DMCA, not copyright. The
fact is. you can go almost anywhere in the world
and you won't run into these restrictions. So have
fun on your trip! it's your computer.

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Quinn Norton writes about copyright for Wired
News and other publications. Her work has
ranged from legal journalism to the inner life
of pirate organizations.

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