With SlySoft Being Gone, Do We Have an AnyDVD Alternative?

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• With SlySoft Being Gone, Do We Have an AnyDVD
  Alternative?
• Feb. 24th, 2016 should be a sad day to
  software companies developing DVD and Blu-ray
  decrypting tools and their customers who own
  stacks of DVDs and Blu-rays at home, because it
  was on that day, SlySoft, the Antigua and
  Barbuda-based software developer who is
  prominently known for its DVD and Blu-ray
  decrypting tools AnyDVD and AnyDVD HD, was forced
  to shut down, and all people can see, when trying
  to approach its website, is a plain short message
  that reads, Due to recent regulatory
  requirements we have had to cease all activities
  relating to SlySoft Inc. We wish to thank our
  loyal customers/clients for their patronage over
  the years.
• Words have wings and bad news travel fast!
  Soon, speculations and gossips were flooding over
  the internet. What just happened to the legendary
  red fox? Would it be permanently gone? What about
  my lifetime license? Who the hell did this to
  SlySoft? Will it make a comeback shortly after,
  maybe under another name? Those questions surely
  are enough to upset SlySofts customers a lot,
  and other competitors to some extent, as they
  might be eager to know badly who is behind this
  and who will become its next target.

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• It turned out that AACS-LA is the one that
  hunts down the red fox. But why? As the licensing
  body of the Advanced Access Content System copy
  protections applied on the commercial DVD and
  Blu-ray discs, they claim that the existence of
  such decrypting software is an opening threat to
  copyright act, and they think it promotes the
  copyright infringements by allowing people to
  freely access the copyrighted DVDs and Blu-rays
  for illegal redistributions. However, is this
  true? It seems not! How many times do you see a
  guy selling cheap copies of DVD and Blu-ray discs
  in the street, if we may ask, AACS-LA? Did you
  guys ever drop by a DVD and Blu-ray rental store
  to check in person whether or not the store owner
  is copying genuine DVDs and Blu-rays so as to
  rent out to movie lovers? As a movie lover, who
  will bother to rent a copied DVD?
• The truth is that, according to the Fair
  Use Act, people are allowed to make personal
  backups of the copyrighted materials they bought
  without asking for a written permission from the
  issuing company, as long as they are not using
  the backup copies to make profit. Under this
  assumption, it should be totally okay for
  individuals who buy a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays to
  make backup copies, just to save the original
  ones from being scratched, damaged or getting
  lost it should also not be a problem for them to
  convert their purchased DVDs and Blu-rays into
  correct formats for enjoying on their iPods,
  iPads and iPhones, or any other mobile devices
  they legally own.

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• Enough is enough. AACS-LA should know when
  and where to brake properly. It has done its part
  to defend its interest, which as a matter of
  fact, no one even attempts to steal away from
  them, and then it is totally SlySofts call to
  decide whether or not to continue the business to
  defend itself and its customers. Good thing is
  that it seems that they are already taking some
  counter measures, by renaming SlySoft into
  RedFox! Well, its not bad to have such a
  straight name, does it? Look at iPhone makes who
  calls itself Apple the fruit, and Android makers
  who names its applications based on all kinds of
  candies and deserts! The only question is, does
  this mean people will soon welcome RedFox
  Software who replaces the dying SlySoft with
  RedFox AnyDVD, RedFox AnyDVD HD, RedFox DVD
  Ripper, and RedFox Blu-ray Ripper?
• For Gods sake, it will be damn good if
  this can work out. After all, it has such a
  considerable large customer base out there that
  it is responsible for. But what If it does not?
  What about the customers out there? Whats the
  way out? Can they still protect their investment
  should the legendary Red Fox be gone forever? Are
  there any other options on the market?

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• Good luck is that they still have Passkey
  from DVDFab, another world-class decrypting tool
  which enjoys a wilder popularity among movie
  lovers around the world. As an AnyDVD
  alternative, Passkey for DVD and Passkey for
  Blu-ray can work as background process to
  unprotect any DVD and Blu-ray discs inserted into
  a computer disc drive, and thus allowing users to
  freely access any contents on the disc with 3rd
  party tools, for whatever home use purposes,
  including but not limited to, making backup hard
  copies to watch on a home DVD or Blu-ray player
  machine, ripping to computer hard disc drives for
  watching with a video player software, or
  converting to compatible formats to enjoy on the
  move on smart phones and tablet computers like
  iPhone, iPad, and iPod, etc.
• Aside from removing the encryptions,
  Passkey for DVD Blu-ray can do a lot more. If
  users only want to rip the DVDs and Blu-rays to
  HDDs, then they even dont need any 3rd party
  tools, because Passkey itself can fully handle
  that process. There is a very worthy feature
  which lets users to rip DVDs and Blu-rays on to
  computer HDDs and save them in the form of ISO
  files or movie folders, which both can be watched
  directly with a piece of media player software.
  To defend your right of fairly use the materials
  you purchased, Passkey is now the only viable
  alternative you can have, and now DVDFab is
  showing a promotion on it, where people can get
  the Passkey for DVD Blu-ray with up to 50 off.