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 -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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