{"id":156553,"date":"2016-02-25T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=156553"},"modified":"2016-02-25T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:33:50","slug":"blu-ray-ripping-software-anydvd-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/156553-blu-ray-ripping-software-anydvd-taken-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray ripping software AnyDVD taken down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SlySoft, the company behind\u00a0Blu-ray ripping software AnyDVD, has shut down its website and ceased sales of its products.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/popular-blu-ray-ripper-shuts-down-following-legal-pressure-160224\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>, the move comes after &#8220;Hollywood studios and technology partners asked the U.S. Government to intervene&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Warner Bros, Disney, Microsoft, and Intel reminded the U.S. Government about the unauthorized activities of SlySoft,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>SlySoft &#8211; whose AnyDVD was popular among those looking to circumvent copyright protection &#8211; closed its website and had its\u00a0domain&#8217;s main name servers removed,\u00a0stated TorrentFreak.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on piracy<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/156193-top-10-most-pirated-movies-of-the-week-4.html\">Top 10 most pirated movies of the week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SlySoft, the company behind Blu-ray ripping software AnyDVD, has shut down its website and ceased sales of its products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,35763,3380,125,35761],"class_list":["post-156553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-anydvd","tag-blu-ray","tag-piracy","tag-slysoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156555,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156553\/revisions\/156555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}