Originally Posted by muddy
I don't think DVDShrink is able to circumvent copy protection. If you had some other program running on your box that decrypts everything coming from the DVD player you might mistakenly think that DVDShrink was doing it ...
DVD Shrink does circumvent DECSS copy protection, which is why it, and programs like it, such as DVD Decrypter, though still found around the internet, are no longer maintained or distributed by their authors.