Planet of the Apes + PowerDVD8

[dadkins]

Thank you Friend!
I appreciate it as well!

[hamisht]

Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

Any time you use software designed to defeat copy protection, you deserve whatever glitches and problems you get.

statements like that crack me up. can you honestly say you have never copied anything? dont act so high and mighty. This thread had nothing to do with coping anything, it was all about the fact that Planet of the Apes wouldnt play in PowerDVD. I HAD to get AnyDVD HD to get it to work.

[Sir Terrence]

Originally Posted by dadkins

There shouldn't be a need for these items, but here we are!

Copying doesn't require defeating Copy Protection, that's the funny part!
The overly agressive CP does need to be backed off though. It isn't stoping anything.

To be honest, and not to be rude, but the consumer is not the person to decide what is needed, and what is not. You didn't pay to get the movie made, authored, encoded, or transported to the store, or the person who has to obsorb the losses because of piracy. And you are wrong, in order to copy a bluray disc, you have to break BD+, and that is illegal.

It really doesn't matter if it is stopping anything or not, it is not your call on whether they need to back off or not. What you are doing is illegal, and you can try and paint it anyway you want to so as to justify your illegal actions, but it is still wrong.

How you guys can come on here and discuss your illegal actions is beyond me. But wrong is wrong!

[dadkins]

It's like this - I paid for this shiny disc I have in my hand.
If for some unforeseen reason it refuses to play, I have every right to try and make it play.
If that means using a driver from SlySoft, so be it.
It is not illegal for me to watch the movie I paid for. Is it?

Did I ever post that I am reproducing and distributing anything? No.
Then no piracy is happening.

There are ways to copy whole discs - protection and all, but we aren't supposed to discuss these things and I will not be baited into doing so.

What I'm doing is illegal... watching my bought and paid for Blu-rays... ok!
No matter how you paint it, what *I* do with my hardware and media is not illegal and frankly I don't care what you think about it. Sorry.

The CP does need to be backed off.
The only people it is actually hurting is the paying customer.
You, me, us.
If the "pirates" want to copy and distribute media, no protection is going to even slow them down.
All it will do is make people come here and wonder why their newest purchase fails to play.
The "pirates" can, and will, copy it.
Yeah, keep piling it on!

[mikey p]

Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

How you guys can come on here and discuss your illegal actions is beyond me. But wrong is wrong!

Then what do you think about the OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN? I have the following; a Panny 35, a 30, a Sony S300, and a Tobby HD DVD players, all of these mfg's issue firmware in a timely mannor (however sadly not the case with all mfg's), and sooner or later all titles will play. Computers on the other hand use software players which don't seem to get upgrades at all, if ever, is this right? BTW; I use a Sony laptop with WinDVD 9 and PowerDVD 8 I'll be dipped if I buy yet another software package to play all the damn FOX titles! Under these conditions can you see how/why people get a little more than put off when, while trying to do the right thing, get kicked in the butt anyway? Someone needs to fix the problem, not scold people for taking matters into their own hands.

If it matters I don't use the subject work around package, yet. Thanks.