{"id":1174,"date":"2004-05-19T18:10:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T07:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2010-03-13T17:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T06:47:25","slug":"anydvd-is-a-a-very-useful-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"AnyDVD is a a very useful tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertarian.org.au\/blog\/readArticle.jsp?articleID=204094\">Elsewhere I have been pondering<\/a> on how government rules produce interesting workarounds. I was using the software product <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slysoft.com\/en\/\">AnyDVD from SlySoft Inc<\/a> as my angle into this, and it occurs to me I ought to mention the product here as well.<\/p>\n<p>My ponderings were about the essential illegality of this product, given that it decrypts content-protected DVDs, which breaches such laws as the Digital Millennium Act in the United States and similar legislation here in Australia. The main reason I purchased it was to overcome Region Code restrictions on my computer&#8217;s DVD drive, and secondarily to eliminate User Operation Prohibitions.<\/p>\n<p>And it does all this very nicely, without being in any way noticable. As it happens, it has decrypted a dozen or so DVDs very nicely as well, entirely quietly and in the background, with no noticable lag. Costs $US39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsewhere I have been pondering on how government rules produce interesting workarounds. I was using the software product AnyDVD from SlySoft Inc as my angle into this, and it occurs to me I ought to mention the product here as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}