DRM defeaters defeated? SlySoft ceases operations
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 24 February 2016
In a cryptic message posted on its website, SlySoft, a company that made several applications devoted to defeating DRM schemes, announced that it has shut down. “Due to recent regulatory requirements we have had to cease all activities relating to SlySoft Inc.,” reads the brief message. “We wish to thank our loyal customers/clients for their patronage over the years.”
Headquartered in the Caribbean nation of Antigua, the software firm had been the target of vitriol and legal threats from the film industry throughout the years.
Maybe they can find another country which does not give in under US pressure, or does not care about it and re-open. Otherwise, DVD and BD sales might go down, since most of the users legally bought the media and just want to use it on the different media systems they own; something that the content industry has failed to offer. Users could also skip trailers, piracy warning and whatever else, and skip right to the movie. A problem which pirates never had.