![]() ![]() MGM Order Archived at the Wayback Machine Court Decision in case against 321 Studios, the makers of PC software similar to MacTheRipper ^ Jon Lech Johansen's Blog DeCSS author notes GPL code used in MacTheRipper, MacTheRipper author responds.^ libdvdcss-devel mailing list A user notes the use of libdvdcss in a closed-source project. ![]() HandBrake: a free open-source transcoder application for converting DVD content into other formats.DVD ripping: an article about extracting the content of DVD, CD, and Blu-ray discs.In a case against the maker of a program similar to MacTheRipper, the court found that "the downstream uses of the software, whether legal or illegal, are not relevant to determining whether itself is violating the statute." In that case and others that followed it, the court found the software manufacturer in violation of the DMCA. and EU have adopted as part of the WIPO Copyright Treaty. The creation and distribution of MacTheRipper may violate the anti-circumvention laws which the U.S. However, with MacTheRipper 4 and newer the libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries are distributed separately and must be installed separately for MacTheRipper to work. Previous releases of MacTheRipper violated the GNU General Public License (GPL) of the libdvdread and libdvdcss software libraries, on which MacTheRipper is built. ![]()
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