Digital Rights Managed file usage

[Larry Asbell]

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=breaking+drm+encryption

[Shane Ross]

Nothing legal. And know that if you show this to any audience, other than maybe your mom or best friend, you open yourself to a huge liability problem. You can be sued, and can lose a lot of money. “Oh, this is just for a conference” or “just for a corporate presentation” doesn’t matter. This stuff will leak (Look at the US Postal Service and their STAR TREK video)…and you will get into hot water.

Be warned…

Shane
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[Trevor Ward]

Thanks for the warning. I understand the legalities of what I want to use this for. Actually, it’s not illegal to edit the video and strip the DRM protection. That in and of itself is not illegal. Just like it’s not necessarily illegal to make a photocopy of a page of a book or newspaper. The act of making the copy isn’t illegal. It’s what happens after that.

Not trying to be fussy with semantics. But in this case, semantics are important.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Shane Ross]

I know…I can “rip a DVD” and put that on my computer or iPod so I can watch it. They don’t WANT you do to do that, but that in itself isn’t illegal. But using that footage in an sort of public performance, or showing…is illegal.

Shane
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[Trevor Ward]

Like I said, what you do AFTER you make the copy is what matters. And don’t forget about Fair Use. That’s what our lawyers get paid the big buck for. Anyway, I’ll check out the link to see if that works for me.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Trevor Ward]

To circle back around on this, I never found a software for the Mac OS that will let me remove the DRM from the video file I purchased on iTunes. I ended up buying the DVD and ripping it with handbrake.

I tried your all suggestions. I google searched. I tried iMovie and FCPX, compressor, media encoder, PP, FCP7. I tried a bunch of those random little programs whether free for paid. Nothing worked. Perhaps having a PC would have changed the situation.

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Jerry Smith]

Hi,

As for this problem, I think you need a special program to extract audio from video. There is a smart audio capture called AudFree Audio Capture, which can help you extract songs or audios from any video and save them as MP3 format. So, you can transfer and use it freely according to your demands.

[Daniel Dzula]

I stumbled upon this topic and while it seems silly to comment on such an old post, I’ll do so for the benefit of future generations (and would-be digital crackers):

Regarding previous comments about the legality of thwarting copy protection vs. actually exploiting/violating the underlying copyright—didn’t the 1998 DMCA criminalize the circumvention of copy protection protocols, regardless of whether or not you violate the copyright? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

Using DeCSS, to crack a DVD for example, is NOT analogous to copying a page out of a book. As far as I know, and as far as federal laws are concerned, the DMCA changed that. It doesn’t matter what you do—or not—with the files; there is no fair-use where circumvention of a copy-protection apparatuses is concerned.

Even if you were the sole copyright owner of the contents on an encrypted DVD—and even if you paid for the encryption and replication—it would still be ILLEGAL to decrypt/rip the contents of the disk.

The DMCA is just as flawed as it righteous. But until it is revised, copy at your own risk! And, um, maybe don’t post about it publicly!