Copy Protection blocks my DVD: Is anyone willing to give me a hand?

[Erik Mesoy]

0xC00D1167: Det oppstod et problem med kopibeskyttelsen
<Snip lengthy error message in Norwegian>

So now the infamous Copyright Protection devil has struck me as well. Gah, this feels melodramatic...
I cannot play "new" DVDs, fresh from the shop, on my computer (Windows XP) using either PowerDVD or Windows Media Player. Older DVDs play fine. The same DVDs play well on another computer. I've reinstalled PowerDVD. Nothing is helping.

Does anyone know how to get around the irritating copy "protection" so that I can play these frustrating DVDs?

Two of the DVDs being affected are "The man without a past" and "The road to Perdition". A Charlie Chaplin film works fine. All of them are ok on our laptop, but the speakers in it are blown...

 

[Dell19]

Couldn't you just plug the PC speakers into the laptop? If its a copyright problem then I would have thought that the DVD would have some sort of player that you can install off the DVD which allows you to watch the film.

 

[damunzy]

Contact the DVD maker and complain. I stopped buying music CDs because a lot of them won't play in my CD-RW/DVD player. I don't own a stand-alone CD player people - Argh!

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Couldn't you just plug the PC speakers into the laptop?

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, the laptop can't handle it- too few ports.

Contact the DVD maker and complain.

No go. There isn't a single producer for most of these, and it would probably just lead to a long exchange of letters.
Music CDs?

What I'm looking for is a workaround or patch (or other program to play DVDs?) that fixes my PC in such a way that I can play the DVDs.

 

[citizen001]

are you willing to use 'illegal methods'?

 

[Grisu]

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, the laptop can't handle it- too few ports.

No go. There isn't a single producer for most of these, and it would probably just lead to a long exchange of letters.
Music CDs?

Yeah, and they'd propably accuse you of piracy first. In the eyes of the music/dvd-industry every customer is a potential pirate first and a customer second. That's the only reason I can find that they include copy protection that bothers the legal user but can't stop any pirate willing to invest some time into it.

Do the DVD's that don't work have a different RegionKey than the one that runs? (e.g 1 where the other has 2) ? This should be printet on the DVD-Case

If that's the problem DVD Genie might help you.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

are you willing to use 'illegal methods'?

Yes. The so-called "protection" (makes me want to spit every time I see it) is illegal, as a matter of fact. Being an avid Internet user and browser of rights articles, I'll happily take it both to court and to the world at large.

It's not the region code, it's the copyright craptection.

 

[Grisu]

if it really is the encryption you might try a ripper <Link Deleted>. It allows you to rip the disc to your harddisk (while removing the copy protection). It's not really comfortable since it has to copy the whole disc to your HD before you can watch it, but it should work.

Copy Protection that makes legal use of a purchase impossible makes me mad , same thing with audio cd's. I vowed to not ever again buy a CD that includes copy protection.

 

[Dell19]

Is that link allowed? It might be better to PM him the link and remove it from the post.

 

[Padma]

That link is, at best, borderline. I deleted it.

 

[Grisu]

Sorry, I didn't know that that link violates the rules, I thought that cracking a perfectly legal DVD is allowed?

 

[Chieftess]

Cracking isn't allowed here, either. I had reported this thread already, but seeing that no one's here today , I think it's best to close this thing for the time being.