When Vision was first announced last year, you could not copy DVDs to the server from its built-in disk drive. Now you can. What changed?
[Initially] we were telling everyone that there were legal issues surrounding the importing of movies. We’ve resolved those issues so you can import movies on the front-panel DVD drive.

Exactly how did Escient “resolve” those issues?
We’re maintaining all of the encryption that’s on the movie so when we’re moving a movie from a disc to the internal hard drive, it’s copying bit for bit with all of the encryption intact. We’re adding our own second level of even more stringent encryption to protect it [DVD content] when it’s on the Vision storage system.

Axonix - MediaMax
From the Online Axonix FAQ

What about copyright laws? Is there information on how to obey copyright laws?
Click here to read the article “Fair Use? How to Back Up DVD Movies”
Click to read the article “Fair Use Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)”.
For additional information contact your Axonix Project Manager by clicking here

Fuze Media - Fuze One
From interview with Fuze’s Bob Silver

Initially, Fuze expected users to find and download their own DVD copying software. Now you’ve made it easier for them. Why the change?
We felt there were adequate solutions for getting DVDs onto the system, so we left it alone for DRM purposes.

But people want a brain-dead way of doing it. We decided we could make it easier with our new DVD Importer [application].

The way we’re dealing with the legality is that our product by itself will not rip a DVD if you try to put a content-protected disk in.

The customer needs to go online and buy copy of AnyDVD from SlySoft. It resides in the background of the computer and decrypts any type of encrypted DVD that you put in the computer. Our software sees the DVD as an unencrypted DVD and imports it without any type of encryption.

We’re not unencrypting DVDs; AnyDVD is. We’re clean.

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Julie Jacobson - Editor, Electronic House; Editor-at-large, CE Pro

Julie Jacobson is editor of Electronic House and editor-at-large for CE Pro magazine, the trade magazine for home technology. She co-founded parent company EH Publishing in 1994.