-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
You can. Just use dd. dd if=/path/to/your/dvd of=/path/to/where/you/want/to/make/an/image You now have a bit-for-bit copy of your DVD. Note that you should only do this for archival purposes only. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAODcOUzgNqloQMwcRAliyAKCFPKm/p7jNxGVDJ9LGZlpE3izTqgCePhqQ RT0iI2fXcwhWFaDncjapx1U= =i6+g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]