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Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)



On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:52, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > handful of uses!  And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies
> > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home!
>
> If you're talking about region codes, that's a trivial matter to bypass.
>
> 1: Use something like vobcopy to mirror the DVD to your hard drive.
> 2: Fire up a hex editor.
> 3: Open up VIDEO_TS.VOB
> 4: Change the contents of memory location 0023 to 00
> 5: Save the edited VIDEO_TS.VOB file back to the hard drive
> 6: Burn ripped and edited DVD to a fresh disk
> 7: Play your newly copied, now Region Free DVD in the player of your
> choice.

OK, that's nice.  So is deCSS.  Now what about the 20-billion other DRM styles 
out there?

-- 
Paul Johnson
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