Re: can't cp files from dvd
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <noahm@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Probably http://www.mit.edu/iap/dvd/; that page also has several links
to DVD resources, including both political-layer things ("DVD Copy
Control Association") and actual useful things ("LinuxVideo project",
"Gallery of CSS Descramblers").
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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