Question: Does DVDFab fully remove the encryption of a DVD ?

HUH??

I used the link provided by the e-mail that had the Licence files in it.

So if I have used the wrong link, then it was not my fault.

Did you download from the link I posted?

The emails from Avangate, the payment processor, always link to the non-CSS version on dvdfab.net, and no, that is not your fault at all, many do it and it is understandably confusing for new users. The correct link is in my post which you quoted in post#23. And just for the record, no one has cheated you or sold anything under false pretenses.

YAY! I'm up and running. Cheers for the links to CSS versions.

Thanks Guys much appreciated.

I am trying to find out if cooperation could alter, edit, and/or change a DVD? My attorney finally received a DVD of an incident I was involved two years ago. The witnesses’ state that they are not in the DVD we received as well as some other differences. We are trying to get more of the footage, but feel that they will state that is all that they have available. Of course, we cannot accuse or question without proof. Who can I contact, how can I identify, and what can I do to determine if the DVD has been changed?

Now you're getting into a sticky area...and please bear in mind I'm not a lawyer, judge, jurist or anything like that...

Digital information, before it is written to a DVD (+R or -R) can certainly be altered, fiddled with, compromised, and made to look like something it isn't. (Just watch almost any major Hollywood production - especially sci-fi, for many examples...).

Once that digital info is written to a write-once disc, it cannot be altered, fiddled with, compromised, etc. AS IT EXISTS ON THAT DISC. It can only be 'erased' (subjected to a strong light of the same wavelength as the laser that wrote the disk, which will render the disc unreadable, not re-writeable).

Now, the fly-in-the-ointment... the data on this disc can be retrieved (the ripping process), and can subsequently altered, fiddled with etc. etc., and then re-written to a new disc (of the same kind as the original), and I know, with only the bogus disc, you can tell that any data on it has been altered, as there's software that'll bring out the time stamps for the video, and discrepancies can be caught at that point... (all digital info has time stamps and other ID markers that can be retrieved, as well as the original data). This is why forensics people get paid...also, if the camera that records any 'bogus' material isn't the same as the camera that recorded the original, that'll show up, too...

I don't know if this answers your question, or raises more questions than it answers...

P.S. Your lawyer should know where to send the DVD for analysis...


OC

I am so glad that I finally found your response. I really appreciate your response and I appreciate the time and the information you provided.

I emailed my attorney and stated that I felt the DVD was edited. At first, he thought it was absurd to accuse the co for doing that. Then, his partner in the firm stated that this corporation would do ANYTHING to win a case and not look bad. My attorney does not seem to be very savvy in the computer area. I know some things, but this area is foreign to me also.

The initial DVD, that the corporation sent to the attorney had to download a program and do some configurations to get it to play. Our old computer nor my Apple MacBook were able to download the program nor play the DVD. I had my nephew convert the DVD to where it could be played in a DVD player as they are made to do.

I am in the United States and am not sure how to find a ‘forensics’ person. Is that how I can retrieve the time stamps and other ID markers as well as the original data?

How can I tell that someone responds to my question? I am new to this site and not familiar with how it works. I would deeply appreciate any information you can provide to help me prove that the DVD was altered.

Please advise,

GW

Your attorney should be able to find a forensic video engineer.

Don't try getting it done yourself, or you may be accused of trying to alter the data...

Get your lawyer (or his computer savvy partner - if he has one) to get a police forensics expert to analyse it...if the local police can't do it they'll know who can, and the police probably won't do it on the basis of your request, anyways...

P.S. And, if your lawyers can't (or won't) do this for you, (after all, it's going to help their case), then maybe it's time to start looking for a better law firm, or at least one with experience with technology...

OC

Thank you for your suggestions and advice. I am glad that you mentioned the problems created if I had the DVD checked myself. I will try again with my attorney and then take your advice.

Have a great weekend,

GW
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1. Be advised that it's very easy to put fake timestamps into DVD files - even I know how to do that & I'm not a hacker! ( trick 1 is simply to change the date & time on the PC that is writing the files )

2. when you post here, scroll down to additional options and lfind "thread subscription" then change "notification type" to instand email- you will then get an email alert when anyone posts a reply.

PS it's also easy to cut scenes from a dvd recording e.g. to remove a witness segment. you can for example ( at sites like thebox.bz) find lots of TV show downloads which were originally recorded from air to DVD and were then edited to cut out all of the advertising breaks. Just goole "edit DVD" to get an idea of what can be done, & how