- MacTheRipper
MacTheRipper is a
Mac OS X application that enables users to create a playable copy of the contents of aVideo DVD by defeating theContent Scramble System . During this process it may optionally modify or disable theDVD region code or theUser operation prohibition features of the copied data. The previous lack of an OS X equivalent to the PC softwareDVDShrink gave this standaloneDVD ripper widespread popularity amongMacintosh users.Fact|date=June 2008The current public release is version 2.6.6. The next release, version 3, has been in testing by a closed group since April 30th 2006. [ [http://www.mactheripper.org/ MacTheRipper Official Site] See Project News entry for Apr 30, 2006] Users can join the test group by making a donation to the project.Fact|date=June 2008
MacTheRipper was developed in 2002 and since that time, it has had over two million users.Fact|date=March 2008
Criticism
The closed-source policy of MacTheRipper's authors may violate the
GPL license of the [http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ogle/libdvdread/ libdvdread] andLibdvdcss software libraries, which MacTheRipper is built on. [ [http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/libdvdcss-devel/2006-July/000454.html libdvdcss-devel mailing list] A user notes the use of libdvdcss in a closed-source project.] [ [http://nanocr.eu/2008/03/15/rogue-developers/ Jon Lech Johansen's Blog]DeCSS author notes GPL code used in MacTheRipper, MacTheRipper author responds]The creation and distribution of MacTheRipper may violate the
Anti-circumvention laws which the U.S. andEU have adopted as part of theWIPO Copyright Treaty , in spite of the fact that the software is designed for makingfair use backups. 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 [the manufacturer] itself is violating the statute." [ [http://w2.eff.org/IP/DMCA/MGM_v_321Studios/20040219_Order.pdf 321 Studios v. MGM Order] Court Decision in case against321 Studios , the makers of PC software similar to MacTheRipper] In that case and others that followed it, the court found the software manufacturer in violation of theDMCA . [ [http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2004/08/64453 321 Studios Shuts Its Doors]Wired News article about the entertainment industry lawsuits that forced321 Studios to shutdown]References
ee also
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DVD ripper article about other software with similar features.
*RipIt another Mac OS X software with same purpose.External links
* [http://www.mactheripper.org/ Official site]
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