How To Install Security Software?

[VickyMilza]

Hello Users,

With the constant threat of hackers, fraudsters and scam artists, security software for your personal computer is absolutely vital. Anti-spyware and anti-malware products such as Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy are easy to use, free and available online. Setting up your security software is very easy: Simply unpack the program and configure it ready to protect your computer. I have that much knowledge if anyone having any suggestion please share with us.

Thanks in advance

Vicky Milza

 

[VickyMilza]

Hi Everyone,

I got super troopers and digital copy with it. I entered in the serial number and got it to work once. But now it doesn't work and says the digital rights management protection says I can't play it. Is there a way to remove this protection? Like a program that can get rid of it?

Thank You

Vicky Milza

 

[Doc Hudson]

Threads merged and moved.

Doc H.

 

[steptoe]

Google " ubuntu "

It will do everything for you that windoze cant.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

Hi Everyone,

I got super troopers and digital copy with it. I entered in the serial number and got it to work once. But now it doesn't work and says the digital rights management protection says I can't play it. Is there a way to remove this protection? Like a program that can get rid of it?

Thank You

Vicky Milza

Try buying a legitimate copy .

 

[bryanh]

Try buying a legitimate copy .

Also never get any software that needs a pasword or for you to go to another site to install a player etc they are nearly always bad news

 

[Marvo]

But now it doesn't work and says the digital rights management protection says I can't play it. Is there a way to remove this protection?

Removing DRM is not easy, there's actually a 'workaround' that involves using an older version of WindozeMediaPlayer but it's not worth the effort to be honest....especially for an ABBA song . Unfortunately the protection is built into the proprietary file format such as wma or wmv so even a linux based os won't support playback or allow you to transcode to mp3 or flac which is a drm-free format.

If you own the song already on any CD/DVD or even on a C90 cassette tape for that matter then, even if the original media is unplayable/damaged, it would be perfectly legal to download a 'back-up' in mp3 format from any of the direct download sites such a filestube etc. If you live in a location that allows distribution-not-for-profit of copyrighted material then you could also get a copy via bittorrent protocol download. If the original disk has drm protection you're entitled to make one back-up a least so it might be legal (depending on your location) to use a loader environment such as AnyDVD to make your back-up.

 

[steptoe]

Removing DRM is not easy, there's actually a 'workaround' that involves using an older version of WindozeMediaPlayer but it's not worth the effort to be honest....especially for an ABBA song . Unfortunately the protection is built into the proprietary file format such as wma or wmv so even a linux based os won't support playback or allow you to transcode to mp3 or flac which is a drm-free format.

If you own the song already on any CD/DVD or even on a C90 cassette tape for that matter then, even if the original media is unplayable/damaged, it would be perfectly legal to download a 'back-up' in mp3 format from any of the direct download sites such a filestube etc. If you live in a location that allows distribution-not-for-profit of copyrighted material then you could also get a copy via bittorrent protocol download. If the original disk has drm protection you're entitled to make one back-up a least so it might be legal (depending on your location) to use a loader environment such as AnyDVD to make your back-up.

Im not so sure about that,

I can rip DVDs/CDs and extract hidden content that simply gets ignored when even playing on a windoze PC,

most DRM is fairly basic encoding if you have the 'right' ripping software.

VLC can do amazing things with the right add-ons.

 

[steptoe]

just to add, there are some DRM that I dont fully understand how to work with yet.

actually, maybe a lot, but mostly dont affect me so much as I dont rip ABBA songs,

 

[Marvo]

I wasn't going to go into great depth about DRM as an electrical forum isn't a very relevant place for it so I'll try keep it simple and general.

DRM takes many different forms. If an original CD or DVD has been ripped to a PC then the PC file format may have DRM protection to stop it being copied or relocated. The DRM built into the PC file formats isn't that easy to crack because the formats were designed from the ground up to support these restrictions. There's also forms of DRM built into optical media (CD's and DVD's) itself. This can also take many forms depending largly on the type of data. They use different DRM techniques for PC games than they would for music CD's and different techniques again for movie DVD's. Some operating systems are more likely to respect the protection on the disks than others but there's software freely available for all os platforms that will bypass the DRM on the optical media.

Over the years it's turned into a cat and mouse game between the top site scene groups and the distribution companies such as SonyBMG et al and the copyright enforcers & lobbyists. The bottom line is there's no such thing as an un-copyable game, movie or music disk, never has been and never will be, the only people that suffer are the Joe Public who are getting their pants pulled down when they pay good money for the original item and find out it's been been bundled with DRM that detracts from it's usability. Up to now this hasn't deterred the distributors from crippling their products with the stuff.