Over the years, I've had the privilege of traveling quite a bit. Of course, I have to travel with all my gear — my laptop, my cell phone, and my iPod. Beginning late last year, I replaced the iPod ...

Last week, SlySoft announced that it had definitively cracked the extra layer of DRM that helped make Blu-ray more popular with the studios than HD DVD. The company announced in a post on its forum ...

SlySoft, known as the developer of DVD ripping software "AnyDVD", closed the official website and reported that all activities had to be canceled. On SlySoft's site"Virtual CloneDrive" free software ...

It seems that DRM just can't catch a break these days. First the all-important processing key required to unlock and decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs was discovered, now just days later comes news ...

Those of you familiar with DVD copying...err, authoring tools will no doubt be familiar with the company Slysoft. Its AnyDVD and CloneDVD tools are two of the most popular protection/preview stripping ...

Over the last couple of days, no one could access the Slysoft.com site, and it now appears that pressure from the AACS LA and possibly the government in Antigua have closed Slysoft for good. There is ...

You may or may not be aware, but there has been and still is a war being waged over Blu-ray DRM. Slysoft announced that they cracked the BD+ algorithm back in March this year and has been including ...

The ongoing war between the pro- and anti-DRM crowds continues with the news that SlySoft has released a new version of its AnyDVD HD duplication software capable of breaking the protection on “all ...

Well, well. Our friend Jimmy C.'s (who cancelled on our planned interview last week, but it's cool) little indie project has taken the all-time Blu-ray sales crown for North America in just four days.

New software is now making it possible to remove Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encryption from HD DVDs, enabling users to play discs on non-HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) ...

[UPDATE 03/26/08 - Exercising its "Right to Reply" I have the following to share from Macrovision Corp, the company who currently owns the rights to BD+ technology: “Macrovision does not comment on ...