AnyDVD
AnyDVD is a software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It frees video DVDs among others copy protection mechanisms such as ARccOS or Macrovision, region codes and other restrictions on use. Other capabilities of the program are the automatic chokes from DVD drives after loading a DVD for the purpose of noise reduction, the semi-transparent display of subtitles, the conversion of forced subtitles in optional subtitles and changing the refresh rate depending on the video standard (PAL or NTSC ) of a medium inserted. Also, the program can automatically skip upstream trailers and notes on a medium and optionally jump directly to the navigation menu or the main movie.
AnyDVD is further developed and marketed since it has acquired in July 2003, all rights thereto from the Swiss company Elaborate Bytes of the resident in Antigua and Barbuda companies SlySoft.
Description
The program works as a device driver ( filter driver ) in the background and removes any existing copy a DVD movie before passing the signal to the playback or processing software. The operating system thus recognizes the video as unprotected and allows other applications whose corresponding use. Since published in the February 2007 version 6.1.2.3, the program is also offered with an optional, fee-based extension called AnyDVD HD. This also allows to bypass the HDCP copy protection or AACS HD DVD. A support for Blu -ray discs was retrofitted until several weeks later in the beginning of March 2007 released version 6.1.3.0. Since version 6.1.8.4 AnyDVD has a so-called AI module, an artificial intelligence in the software analyzed the copy independently and decides how it is to get around. With the release of version 6.4.0.0 AnyDVD HD was the first and only one for over a year program that could completely bypass the Blu -ray BD - protection mechanism. A later modified version of BD can be circumvented since version 6.5.0.2, which is published at the end of 2008.
Since version 7.0.0.0 AnyDVD HD can you insert a Blu -ray disc to create a so-called Speed Menu on request, which is displayed immediately ( without any upstream trailers, etc.) instead of the regular menus and automatically generated from the chapter information contained on the disc. This menu can optionally be started directly on the disc, the main movie, a particular chapter, or any track. AnyDVD HD supports the incorporation of this special menus in a copy by passing it through enough the changed menu information to the copy application.
With version 7.1.6.0 introduced the ability to disable based on a woven into the soundtrack digital watermark Cinavia copy protection (s) when playing on supporting media players. The protection itself is doing currently is not removed, the playing of a generated with AnyDVD HD copy on a hardware player with Cinavia support is therefore not possible. If AnyDVD HD is active on the winamp end system, the watermark is, however, altered to the player software will not recognize it and therefore there was no mute the sound track after about 20 minutes.
AnyDVD also makes it possible to bypass the copy protection of some audio CDs - with most audio CDs, however, the effectiveness of the copy depends exclusively on the used CD or DVD drive, or whether the auto play any is on the media programs is suppressed.
Litigation
The frequently heard generalising statement that the program was unlawful per se, does not correspond to the facts. In many European countries, including Germany and Austria, the program may indeed not be advertised, sold or lent, but the property itself is not illegal in Germany and elsewhere. The use is punishable by law, provided that a technical device is bypassed and this not only happens to one's own personal use.
The Heise publishing house, who had a message of 19 January 2005 set a hyperlink to the website developers AnyDVD in his news portal heise online, was sued by several companies in the music industry and sentenced to remove the links from the Munich I Regional Court. This judgment was confirmed by the Oberlandesgericht ( Higher Regional Court ) Munich on 28 July 2005. The Heise publishing house then lodged a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court for violation of press freedom. After their rejection on formal grounds, the publisher has invoked the main proceedings. By judgment of 14 November 2007 ( 21 O 6742 /07), the Regional Court Munich I already expressed in its interim redress legal opinion confirms again. The Munich Higher Regional Court rejected the appeal against that judgment on October 23, 2008 ( 29 U 5696 /07). According to the Court of interference with the freedom of the media (Article 5 paragraph 1 sentence 2 of the Basic Law ), which was that the Heise publishing the setting of the hyperlink was banned, justified by § 95a para 3 of the Copyright Act and the principles of participant liability was. The judge justified this by saying that the defendant Heise publishing house were aware of the illegality of the website of AnyDVD at the link.
On 14 October 2010 the Federal Court raised after the appeal proceedings on the judgment of the Munich Higher Regional Court and dismissed the music industry from full. In the introduction, the Senate made clear that the specific function of the link setting must be evaluated, since the linking is generally permitted as a means of reporting. An attachment of the links as a footnote equivalent way to pure information gathering speak for its admissibility. The judgment is final, the verdict was issued on 19 April 2011. A constitutional complaint, the music industry, which had the review of the Supreme Court ruling, the goal was not adopted by decision of 15 December 2011 concerning the decision. In the unquestionable rejection reasons the Federal Constitutional Court affirmed the view of the Federal Court.