On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:34 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:38:44PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: >> With the recent injunction granted against 321 Studios for their DVD X >> Copy software for copying DVDs, I've been wondering something. Why is it >> necessary to break CSS encryption to make a copy? Could you not make a >> bit-for-bit copy of the DVD and have the contents still be encrypted on >> the new medium? I mean, copying an mp3 file from one cd to another >> doesn't require you to decode it first. > >Consumer grade media doesn't allow you to record the CSS key on the medium. >I think it's preburned with 0s or something like that. So you can only store >unencrypted video on them. > >Bijan
Huh? I copy commercial DVDs for my daughter. The original stays in her control, and the copy goes into the grandkids playroom. This is all done on standard DVD+R blanks. Piracy my old white butt :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
