{"id":386959,"date":"2010-03-03T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5485124"},"modified":"2010-03-03T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T23:40:48","slug":"rip-realdvd-even-if-we-wont-notice-youre-gone-realnetwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386959","title":{"rendered":"RIP RealDVD, Even If We Won&#8217;t Notice You&#8217;re Gone [Realnetwork]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has finally ordered RealNetworks to put its DVD ripping service, RealDVD, to sleep because apparently it&#8217;s &#8220;illegal to bypass the copyright protections built into DVDs designed to protect movies against theft.&#8221; Whoops. As part of its legal loss against the Motion Picture Association of America, the media delivery company will be forced to shell out $4.5 million for legal costs. <\/p>\n<p>While this whole thing is a bit painful for RealNetworks, will anyone actually miss RealDVD when there are <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5444274\/five-best-dvd+ripping-tools\">plenty of free DVD-ripping solutions<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20100303\/realdvd-takes-a-dirt-nap-realnetworks-ordered-to-pay-hollywood-4-5-million\/\">All Things D<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6d0774b7fa7e11bb1d18d18a470b3bf8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6d0774b7fa7e11bb1d18d18a470b3bf8&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=JfzkmWHGJF8:DLQFlnwOM9Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/JfzkmWHGJF8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has finally ordered RealNetworks to put its DVD ripping service, RealDVD, to sleep because apparently it&#8217;s &#8220;illegal to bypass the copyright protections built into DVDs designed to protect movies against theft.&#8221; Whoops. As part of its legal loss against the Motion Picture Association of America, the media delivery company will be forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}