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The (only) **Official** DVDShrink Site IS NO MORE!

This is what you can read at the Official DVD Shrink Site. Like DVD Decrypter it appears this site is down forever.

Long live DVD Shrink…

just would like to spread the word and let everyone know, you can now find DVD Decrypter at: http://www.dvddecrypter.r8.org ! After a lot of hard work, I’ve brought the website back!

The bad news is I lost all my programers which means until I find a new team I will only provide version 3.5.4.0 for download. If you have programming skills please e-mail me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!! I’m looking for a wide range of people including reverse engineer, C , C or anyone who knows how to update and maintain software programs!!

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Hello world,

I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the good…. (tumble weed passes by)Ok, and now onto the bad: DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 is the last version you’ll ever see.We hoped this day would never come, but it has, and I can promise you, nobody is more gutted about it than I am.

What started as a bit of fun, putting a GUI around some existing code, turned into something that I can only describe as “part of me” 鈥?yes, I know that’s sad ;-) As I’ve recently been made aware (by a letter, hand delivered to my door, last Tuesday), due to some law that was changed back in October 2003, circumventing copy protection isn’t allowed.

Ok so it has taken a while (almost 2 years), but eventually “a certain company” has decided they don’t like what I’m doing (circumventing their protection) and have come at me like a pack of wolves. I’ve no choice but to cease everything to do with DVD Decrypter. I realise this is going to be one of those “that ** [ www.9down.com refused this word ] ** - fight them!” kinda things, but at the end of the day, it’s my life and I’m not about to throw it all away (before it has even really started) attempting to fight a battle I can’t possibly win.

If 321 Studios can’t do it with millions, what chance do I have with 拢50?! As I’m sure most of you have already noticed, the site has been down for a few days. That surprised me as much as the next person (slight breakdown in communication), or I would have issued this statement on it directly.

So anyway, from this point forward, I’m no longer permitted to provide any sort of assistance with anything that helps people infringe the rights of “a certain company”. That means, no more emails, no more forum posts, no PMs, no nothing! END OF STORY. The domain name will be transferred over to the company by the end of the week (9th June, according to the undertakings I have to sign) so don’t email it thinking “Oh, I’ll just ask LIGHTNING UK! for support on this”. You’ll not be getting the intended recipient and could be landing yourself in sh1t!

With 3.5.4.0 being the last version, it makes sense for everyone to disable the “check for new versions” feature, as obviously there won’t be any. Of course what I really mean is that you should all stop using the program out of respect for the company’s rights.

Anyone hosting DVD Decrypter is advised to cease doing so immediately. I’ve the feeling they won’t stop with just me. I’m having to contact anyone I know of that is (at the very least, the “mirror” sites), and tell them to stop. Copies of those emails must also be sent to the solicitors so they can check I’m doing everything I’m supposed to. If I don’t, I die.

It is of course down to the owners of those sites to react how they want to. It’s not my job to force you to do anything you don’t want to, I’m just giving you some friendly advice. Maybe it’s just me, but I see this as a bit of an “end of an era”. I realise there are other tools, but there’s no telling how much longer they’ll last, and not only that, mine was the oldest! I’ve met loads of great people over the years and I want to take this opportunity to wish them every success for the future - yes DDBT peeps, that includes you lot! I hope you’ve all enjoyed my contribution to the DVD scene and maybe I’ll see ya around sometime.

LIGHTNING UK!

(Author of the once “Ultimate DVD Ripper”, DVD Decrypter)

Quite shocking news in deed, but not exactly unexpected, as the UK implemented their version of EUCD legislation back in 2003 and it clearly states that distribution, etc of tools that allow circumventing copy protection mechanisms is illegal. Similar fate is very likely to happen to all other DVD rippers developed by European companies (the similar legislation has been in place in the U.S. for years now).

As Finland, where AfterDawn Ltd is located, hasn’t implemented EUCD to its national legislation yet, we continue to host DVD Decrypter’s last version, as well as several other DVD ripping tools on our site.

I’d wish to express my sympathy to the author of DVD Decrypter, situations like this can be quite devastating. All thell the best!

And just to annoy few people in Hollywood, here’s the link to the latest/last version of DVD Decrypter:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_decrypter.cfm

A JAPANESE JOURNALIST said that an investigation he’s conducted shows that using SSE2 multimedia extensions with the AMD Opteron makes the microprocessor slow to a crawl.Takeo Noguchi. at ASCII Plus Magazine, analysed the Opteron 242 as a microprocessor for a single chip machine, and said that a 1.6GHz chip, according to AMD< slightly outperform a Xeon/Pentium 4 running at 2.8GHz.

He told the INQUIRER that he measured the execution time to encode DV-format AVI files to MPEG, WMV, Divx and Xvid. He found that for encoding DivX and Xvid, Opteron 242’s performance is roughly equivalent to a Pentium 4-2.8GHz, which matches the expectation from SPEC int/fp results.

But, he added, using well known JapaneseMPEG 2 encoding software TMPGenc ((http://www.pegasys-inc.com/), the Opteron’s performance is a staggering 30% lower than a Pentium 4-2.8GHz.

He said: “At first I supposed it was because TMPGEnc is thoroughly optimised for the Pentium 4″.

But he checked the results from SiSoftware Sandra 2003, and found to his surprise that its multimedia integer performance is much lower than the Athlon XP, the architectural cousin of the Opteron.

His results are as follows:

Sandra Multimedia Int

Opteron 242 (1.6GHz) 6300

Pentium 4-2.8GHz 11148

Athlon XP-2600 11614

But it’s not all bad news for the Opteron. He said that well known Japanese archiving software GCA (http://www.emit.jp/gca/gca.html) compresses WAV files a staggering 50% faster than P4-2.8GHz, equivalent to a Pentium 4.4GHz chip, if such a beast existed.

Source : Inquirer

Well RTM was postponed a couple of times, the last time the deadline was set to March 28 and that’s today! Build 3790 is the latest build that is being tested and no bad news till now, so this should be it. Question is if MS will round up the build number? We’ll see today.

Cnet reports that MS is “expected to announce on Friday that Windows Server 2003 has completed testing and been certified final, or gold, code.”

RTM Announcement 9 am Pacific Time

screenshots for 3790 viewing pleasure:

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Source : Bink.nu and Winbeta.org