Re: DVD copying and CSS
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 :)
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