DVD-Ranger continues its fight in trying to convince users their technology has been stolen. Although the developer continues to refrain from mentioning the companies that allegedly stole their technology it's clear who the accused companies are, Slysoft and Elby. Both companies have updated respectively AnyDVD and CloneBD to work together in removing the Cinavia watermark copy protection from Blu-ray discs.
Earlier DVD-Ranger wrote in a blogpost that technology developed by them was stolen by the mysterious user Cienoway who then apparently sold it to Slysoft and Elby. An ongoing discussion on our site showed not many users were convinced or interested in the attempts of DVD-Ranger to make his point after which the developer released several tools that should proof stolen technology was used. His tools are reportedly (not verified by us) able to enable Cinavia again on the soundtracks of which Cinavia was removed by AnyDVD and CloneBD.
Today DVD-Ranger has published source code on the open source website SourceForge.net. In a accompanying blog post the developer explains how the Cinavia signal is distorted by changing several parameters to go on explaining why this is a bad idea. This should proof the technology developed by DVD-Ranger is stolen, as the developer writes, "because the core technology has been recklessly stolen we have decided to publish all those old solutions under the GPL and have thus uploaded all the mentioned tools at Sourceforge."
According to DVD-Ranger publishing the source code is actually bad news as the blog post concludes, "we point out that even Verance can now analyze the code. Thus Verance is the winner of the stolen technology. Not we or the decrypting and BD cloning company, no competitor or end user. Give a big “Thank you” to the decrypting and BD cloning software company."
So far Elby and Slysoft have not responded to the accusations and we couldn't reach them for a comment.
