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Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

I went to rip a movie from my own DVD collection. It surfaced dead anti-piracy infrastructure, a defunct Japanese DRM company, and a twenty five year old executable that was still trying to phone home

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