Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > Grant wrote: > > I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs. The files are > > encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them > > up. I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm > > guessing it's because of the encryption. Does anyone know of a method > > that would back these discs up in their encrypted form? > > That doesn't work that way. What you get is actually garbage and is not > "encrypted" (otherwise you would be able to copy it to another DVD). > Creating a copy of an audio DVD which is itself encrypted would defeat > the purpose of a copy protection, since even though encrypted, it's > still a copy, and the protection wants to prevent that. If you can copy > it, it wouldn't be protected :P
There is no copy protection on a DVD. There is however a region specific _usage_ "protection". You should be able to copy the DVD using dvdbackup. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
