Comments on: RealNetworks Lets You Copy DVDs to Your Hard Drive — And Keep the DRM

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By: RealDVD Launches For Those Who Don’t Mind DRM

RealDVD Launches For Those Who Don’t Mind DRM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:21:29 +0000

[...] We profiled RealDVD a few weeks ago and found that it may suit some of those who want to create a media server and don’t mind DRM, but the software’s hefty price tag of $49.99 for your first license ($29.99 as an introductory offer) and $19.99 for the additional four licenses if you want to watch the films on five computers, should be enough to shy many away. It does have a 30-day free trial so you can try it out though. CrunchBase Information Real Networks Information provided by CrunchBase techcrunch508:http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/30/realdvd-launches-for-those-who-dont-mind-drm/ Previous Post Leave a ReplyClick here to cancel your reply. [...]

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By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:51:24 +0000

Why pay for anything when DVD43 is free? It makes copying a DVD’s full contents to your hard drive a simple drag-n-drop (folder copy). All it does is remove the encryption during copy – the files remain the same. Then you can point your DVD player software at that folder for the same experience with chapters and extras. With an 8-at-a-time Netflix subscription you could fill a 1TB hard drive with 200 disc images in 3 months.

Transcode for iPod with Handbrake, Super, etc., also free. It eats hours of CPU to transcode one DVD to h.264 though. With 720p x264 mkv files transcoded from BluRay now appearing on BitTorrent, it’s a waste of time to bother with DVDs. For the same 5GB storage space you can have far superior picture quality.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:49:57 +0000

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:26:25 +0000

With you all the way Markus. Real Player is the worst piece of splatterware I’ve ever encountered. Since they bought spyware network Gator they dead to me. I’ve thrown away all my downloaded .rm files rather than let Real near my PC again.

By: Daily Marauder

Daily Marauder — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:28:09 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:01:23 +0000

My media box has a 500GB hdd that formats to 477GB and a DVD movie would use about 5GB then I could fit about 95 movies on my media box, no thanks since I would need about 20 x 500GB hdd’s just to store my DVD movies and say another 50x 500GB hdd’s to store my TV serious collection.
Now that is one big server but they need MPEG4 instead of the dvd’s default MPEG2 which would save so much space.
Also be one hell off a time consuming affair and in the end wouldn’t be worth it.
Now if you where just starting your DVD collection and didn’t buy many then this would be allright.

By: Lacy Kemp

Lacy Kemp — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:33:13 +0000

RealDVD is fully licensed by the DVD-CCA.

By: Lacy Kemp

Lacy Kemp — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:32:20 +0000

Hi Pascal,
The product will only be available in the USA. The product will be available by the end of the month. It hasn’t actually been released yet.

By: Lacy Kemp

Lacy Kemp — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:30:41 +0000

Luke-
This product is for movies that you own. Copying rented movies is still illegal.
The files are not playable without the software on the computer, so passing the saved movies along won’t get you very far.

By: Lacy Kemp

Lacy Kemp — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:20:17 +0000

Markus-
We are sorry you (and anyone else out there) have had a bad experience with Real’s products. We’ve REALLY worked on making the user experience a good one. We’ve learned what not to do. We wanted to make this simple and streamlined. The program is small (in size) and it works. It’s easy to use-anyone with a PC can do it.

By: Gail Leise

Gail Leise — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:01:23 +0000

Jason, honey, if it’s such a bad idea, why do you guys write about it here? Its not a website and not a startup, ie not TechCrunch terroritory.

Better blogs, such as CNet and VentureBeat, mention that RealNetworks has found a legal loophole for this product. Of course, the TechCrunch “lawyer” doesn’t like legal when it gets to copyright. And what happens at DEMO must be bad, right?

Is that why you’re not mentioning the larger and better Kindle from Plastic Electronics in your article?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:24:41 +0000

As another commenter has said, “Real Networks” needs to be avoided. Just on principle I cannot touch real software. Internet has a long memory.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:50:54 +0000

Actually, this may not be legal and could be contested in court. According to the NY Times, they have no agreement in place with the DVD Copy Control Association.

By: C.G.

C.G. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:26:48 +0000

The movie industry isn’t happy with this, I’m sure of it. But the alternative is BitTorrent. This is a stop-gap measure that they feel will keep people buying DVDs but let them have the digital distribution to portable players. Its digital distribution on their terms – terms that don’t make sense because it offers no value to the consumer.

So they can claim they support new business models but, in reality, they keep the old one alive for one more day.

By: C.G.

C.G. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:22:27 +0000

High price tag? You’re not kidding… there is so many free software that does the same thing – without the DRM.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:15:18 +0000

costly affair..Isn’t worth paying

By: mnvamsi

mnvamsi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:36 +0000

I think price tag of $49.99 is too much

By: RealNetworks Lets You Copy DVDs to Your Hard Drive | Tech News And Social Networking

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:10:42 +0000

[...] After copying the DVD onto your hard drive, you can’t transfer the movie to a friend’s computer, so you’ll be stuck using your own. Much like iTunes, though, RealDVD lets you authorize five computers to play the movies on the hard drive. Read more on Techcrunch [...]

By: Luke Noel-Storr

Luke Noel-Storr — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:47:25 +0000

What is most exciting about this to me is not the RealDVD solution itself, but the new way of thinking about DVDs and DRM that it opens up. Now this solution exists, and the movie industry is supposedly happy with it, I hope it opens things up for other companies to do the same. Mostly, I’m excited by the thought that Apple could add something like this to iTunes, so that you could easily rip DVDs to play in iTunes, on your iPod, iPhone and Apple TV – that, for me, would be fantastic. Currently I find ripping DVDs for use in iTunes to be a real hassle, if it was as easy as ripping a CD in iTunes, I would be a very happy man. I couldn’t care less about it having DRM.

I’m personally surprised movie industry is happy with this though – as although the ripped file is DRMed, once you’ve ripped the DVD, what’s to stop you selling it on? or what’s to stop you ripping rented or borrowed DVDs?

By: Pascal Wheeler

Pascal Wheeler — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:29:52 +0000

Good intentions I’m sure, trying to provide a legal workaround to the paranoid entertainment industry. Not available in the UK it would seem although hunting round the US Real site also produced no results for this new service so perhaps they’re not so confident in it after all. Of course I could just be suffering from Real.com’s attack on my senses.

By: Gus

Gus — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:01:17 +0000

The price is a total rip-off. Does this do anything that DVD decrypter didn’t do as freeware years ago? And charging for each computer is a joke. Piracy or highway robbery? Take your choice.