Starting out

Akai Rurouni · Post by **Akai Rurouni** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:40 pm

Sorry about the double post. I found the exact law that is probably in question.

Title 17, Chapter 12, Section 1201.

Basically it says you cannot decrypt an encrypted, copyrighted work without the authority of the copyright owner. Although I'm not entirely sure exacly why ripping the DVD is a violation but playing it on a DVD player is not - the DVD player also needs to decrypt the data in order to play it! Maybe there's an implied "authority" for DVD players or something. *shrug*

In any case, if someone is going to prosecute you for making an AMV, they're probably not going to come after you for this particular law.

(Though if they make a long list of violations, they may tack it on just because they can.)

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:10 pm

Akai Rurouni wrote:It may have been a reference to the fact that certain things involving encryption/decryption are illegal (I don't know all the details), and when you rip from a DVD you're decrypting the MPEG-2.

Watch out! I'm using ROT13! Pbhyq or qnatrebhf!

I got
' Can be cangerous '

but im guessing its 'dangerous'

jesus it took me 10 minutes to decrypt that and now my head hurts

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:40 am

Bum and aznfs were right to point you to EADFAG, but I personally would suggest giving <a href="/guides/avtechbeta/">EADBAG</a> a read, as many sections of it have been massively updated.

And then, since you mentioned you have WMM, you can check out the newly created:
<a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/wmm2guid ... cintilla's Guide to Preparing Footage in Windows Movie Maker 2</a>

(But don't read it before reading AD&E's guide.)