Data Hoarder

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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why are you still using DVD Decrypter? It's been abandoned since 2005. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over the last couple weeks there's been a few threads of people insisting on using DVD Decrypter. I was wondering why are people still using it? Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people, so there must be some reason to keep using software that hasn't been updated since Windows XP was modern.

MakeMKV seems like the better option in every use case except full backups. However a full DVD image can be made with any imaging software or even just dd. Any player that can handle the DVD menus from an ISO is going to be able to decrypt during playback.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people

I wish that was the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I dropped my hard drive out the car window now its making a weird noise please help its going click click listen to my video is this normal!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Some of the responses here are making me reconsider that statement.