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MacTheRipper

MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper for Mac OS X, enabling users to create a playable copy of the contents of a Video DVD by defeating the Content Scramble System. During this process it may optionally modify or disable the DVD region code or the User operation prohibition features of the copied data. The previous lack of an OS X equivalent to the PC software DVDShrink gave this standalone DVD ripper widespread popularity among Macintosh users. The last freeware release was version 2.6.6. Later versions were available only directly from the developer, for a fee.

Legal issues
Early releases of MacTheRipper reportedly violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), which requires the source code of any software incorporating the GPL-licensed libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries to also be published. Beginning with MacTheRipper 4, these libraries were not included, and needed to be installed separately. The creation and distribution of MacTheRipper may violate the anti-circumvention laws which the U.S. and EU have adopted as part of the WIPO Copyright Treaty. In a case against the maker of a program similar to MacTheRipper, the court found that "the downstream uses of the software [...], whether legal or illegal, are not relevant to determining whether [the manufacturer] itself is violating the statute." In that case and others that followed it, the court found the software manufacturer in violation of the DMCA. ==See also==
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