Re: can't cp files from dvd

[ric@otte.ucsc.edu]

I was telling my kid about this last night, and he announced to me that
he has no trouble copying them using cp on the command line of his apple
mac (running the system 10.2).  That puzzles me, because I think that
system is based on some sort of BSD, and I would have thought cp would
work the same in both cases.

And you're right; we're all probably breaking the law just talking about
this!

Thanks,

Ric

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:25:41AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are
> encrypted.  I don't remember what the heck it is that you have to do to
> actually get enough of a handle on the data to be able to use something
> like DeCSS on it.  I saw an interesting talk entitled "Decrypting DVD"
> at MIT a couple of years ago, and this is the first I've thought of it
> since then.  Hell, I probably couldn't tell you how to do it, even if I
> did remember, without the MPAA sending the FBI after me for a DMCA
> violation.  8^(
> 
> But whatever the case, you will not be able to copy .vob files from a
> DVD using normal tools like cp.
> 
> noah