This statement of your buddy is misleading and incorrect.
No software can remove the copy protection from the ORIGINAL disks because once they are wriiten, they cannot be changed.
What Fab does, and does very well, is take the original disk, DVD or Blu-Ray, and removes all copy protection while extracting the disk to your hard disk. When tis process is then complete, Fab burns the title to blank disk which you can use to play in set top players.
This is a very simplistic overview and Fab has a lot of other features available also.