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- RISE-AND-FALL-OF-THE-DVD.TXT The Rise and Fall of the DVD: A Format's Twenty-Year Run From the 1995 format agreement to the streaming takeover — how the DVD conquered home video, peaked around 2005, and lost its crown to bandwidth. format-history ★ FEATURED
- DECSS-AND-THE-FIRST-DVD-WARS.TXT DeCSS and the First DVD Wars: The Courtroom Battle Over Source Code In 1999 a leaked decryption program triggered lawsuits in two countries and a First Amendment landmark. This is the story of the first great digital copy war. copy-wars
- HOW-DVD-RIPPING-TOOLS-EVOLVED.TXT How DVD Ripping Tools Evolved: From DVD Decrypter to HandBrake A software history of the ripping era — the free tools that defined a decade of home archiving, and what survived the legal crackdowns. tools
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