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DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer

Posted by kdawson on from the copy-with-abandon dept.

Firmafest writes to let us know that 'DVD Jon' Lech Johansen's company has released an open beta of DoubleTwist, a desktop application that allows the user to copy media to any device. There's a Facebook app too. The software is available for download at Doubletwistventures.com. Currently only Windows is supported, but a Macintosh version is on the way.

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  1. Re:It Required MSdotNET by saider · · Score: 1, Redundant


    Judging by your knee-jerk, I'd say your reflexes are fine.

    Seriously, dotNet is just another environment, like Java or Gnome, except that it comes from *gasp* Microsoft.

    Any technical reasons why you do not want dotNet on your Microsoft platform?

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  2. Re:But can it... by Thelasko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What? -1 overrated? Come on that's funny! Let me explain it to you since you obviously didn't get it. It's funny since HD DVD is dead and if I actually owned any HD DVDs I would be stuck with them. A good business model would be one that converts all of those orphaned HD DVDs into Blue Ray disks. But this program doesn't do that. It does things that several other programs on the market already do. Those other programs are available for Linux. This program is not. Making the above joke doubly funny. Plus it is so very close to the old Slashdot meme "does it run on Linux" making it triply funny. Come on, it's funny, laugh!

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  3. Re:DMCA doesn't apply ourside USofA by Scruffy+Dan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not exactly. Vista only restricts "premium content" from being outputted on analogue outputs ( or at least degrades it) only with DRMed content and only when the DRM asks for it. Regular content isn't affected at all. Non-DRMed media (which is all I would buy) is not affected.

    In that sence it is similar to the way the ipod does DRM. The DRM only kicks in if you buy DRMed content. Otherwise it has no effect.

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