It seems that legal threats were enough to
end the development of DVD Decrypter. That has long been a tool for archiving DVDs, and which strips protection (DRM) much better than other all-in-one tools such as DVD Shrink and others. The tool is also helpful at times for getting content onto a mobile device for reading.
Looks like the process of making personal backup copies has just gotten that much harder for anything you buy in the future with DRM that existing copies of DVD Decrypter can't already handle.
Publisher's control of content is likely to become even harsher than the wireless carrers' stranglehold on how you use and pay for their data network. The bottom line is that they are going to force you to live with expensive and hard to use content that is controlled even to the point of how often and how long you are able use it. Until the inevitable alternatives arrive, that is!
(via Engadget)