[X4U] Copy of DVD with write protect

[Eugene]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:02:22PM CDT, Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2007, at 20:18, Michael Winter wrote:
>> On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:47 PM, wilkinw wrote:
>>
>>> MacTheRipper for decoding!
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I thought MTR was only for video DVD's. Is the disk in 
>> question a standard video DVD with the same copy protection measures, or a 
>> data DVD?
>
> As I wrote previously on 4 Aug 2007, at 21:44:
>
>    I believe that if you "rip" with a program that simply removes the CSS
>    "region protection" then the original DVD structure can simply be
>    copied onto a blank DVD-R which is viewable using a household player.
>
>    CSS stands, I think, for "content scrambling system" and it's the
>    reason you can't simply drag & drop files from a store-bought DVD onto
>    a blank DVD-R. The scrambled content requires a decryption key which
>    is written in an area of the disk inaccessible to home DVD writers.

CSS & region codes (two separate but equally annoying things)
are both a DVD-Video thing.  Neither should be related to any
attempts at creating an archival backup of a data DVD.


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Eugene
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