Press Release: AnyDVD HD protects privacy of Blu-ray customers
Antigua, West Indies - October, 31st 2008
AnyDVD HD protects the privacy of Blu-ray customers
Not only since the Sony rootkit scandal in 2005 is it well-known that here and there, studios are not so serious in their regard of the privacy of their customers.
One very current example of this lack of regard is BD-Live.
Actually, the intent of BD-Live is, for example, to download several megabytes of additional content such as "extras" or "audio comments" over an on-line connection. In any event, these are therefore really features that the customer would have expected to find on the costly Blu-ray disc. Surely there is no lack of space on this medium.for these sorts of things.
Making things particularly less certain, it remains to be considered that quite a significant number of Players do not provide the user with the option to disable this feature - the BluRay content itself lively fires away and without so much as a by-your-leave. And so, many a film fan sits wondering in front of their television sets, oblivious to the reason why it is taking so bloody long for the film to finally begin.
The puzzled consumer is left to rightly pose the question as to what is the reason for this foolish act.
One can only presume that the primary motivation behind this farce is "getting closer" to the customer or, in other words, the studios would like to know exactly how often and when their disc buyers are looking at which film.
Peer van Heuen, the head of development at SlySoft: "When we took a closer look at the first of these disk types we were asolutely dumbfounded. Sometimes the films actually contacted the manufacturer and did that with the user not knowing about it or even being in a position to even recognize that this connection was taking place. I assume that a significant percentage of these film buyers don't know what to make of the little BD-Live logo on the package or even recognize it at all. In other words: hardly anyone expects that a Blu-ray disc 'makes a telephone call home' while it's being played. The circumstances and manner whereby unwitting consumers are maliciously and insidiously eavesdropped upon might get the attention of data and security and/or personal privacy experts in some countries sooner or later."
In the current version of AnyDVD HD there is an opportunity to disable BD-Live and in this way the personal privacy of the spied-upon consumer is restored. On top of this, the other points in the change log are impressive and worthy to mention. New variations of "region locks" can now be removed from menus and new versions of BD+ are supported as well.
The update for AnyDVD HD is, as usual at SlySoft, free of charge for registered users
AnyDVD HD protects the privacy of Blu-ray customers
Not only since the Sony rootkit scandal in 2005 is it well-known that here and there, studios are not so serious in their regard of the privacy of their customers.
One very current example of this lack of regard is BD-Live.
Actually, the intent of BD-Live is, for example, to download several megabytes of additional content such as "extras" or "audio comments" over an on-line connection. In any event, these are therefore really features that the customer would have expected to find on the costly Blu-ray disc. Surely there is no lack of space on this medium.for these sorts of things.
Making things particularly less certain, it remains to be considered that quite a significant number of Players do not provide the user with the option to disable this feature - the BluRay content itself lively fires away and without so much as a by-your-leave. And so, many a film fan sits wondering in front of their television sets, oblivious to the reason why it is taking so bloody long for the film to finally begin.
The puzzled consumer is left to rightly pose the question as to what is the reason for this foolish act.
One can only presume that the primary motivation behind this farce is "getting closer" to the customer or, in other words, the studios would like to know exactly how often and when their disc buyers are looking at which film.
Peer van Heuen, the head of development at SlySoft: "When we took a closer look at the first of these disk types we were asolutely dumbfounded. Sometimes the films actually contacted the manufacturer and did that with the user not knowing about it or even being in a position to even recognize that this connection was taking place. I assume that a significant percentage of these film buyers don't know what to make of the little BD-Live logo on the package or even recognize it at all. In other words: hardly anyone expects that a Blu-ray disc 'makes a telephone call home' while it's being played. The circumstances and manner whereby unwitting consumers are maliciously and insidiously eavesdropped upon might get the attention of data and security and/or personal privacy experts in some countries sooner or later."
In the current version of AnyDVD HD there is an opportunity to disable BD-Live and in this way the personal privacy of the spied-upon consumer is restored. On top of this, the other points in the change log are impressive and worthy to mention. New variations of "region locks" can now be removed from menus and new versions of BD+ are supported as well.
The update for AnyDVD HD is, as usual at SlySoft, free of charge for registered users
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