While I don't much care for the tone of the opening paragraph -- I personally think we gave it a great effort; we spent millions fighting the good fight, but ultimately, we simply lost -- the writer is correct: RealDVD was probably the last legitimate effort we'll see to provide consumers with the ability to back up or virtualize their DVD libraries legally. I'm proud to have worked on the team that built it, and I'm sad to see it go. It really was a great little product.