RE:OT: DVD-* owners be warned . Please see inside .

From: Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 10:29:19 EST


oh no! now people will have to use decss and vob, what a hardship. [8)]

Cheers, Dean.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:57:38 -0400 (EDT) "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com> wrote:


attached mail follows:



        Hello All ,

        Here we go . Two differant hardware types to prevent users from
        making private backups of items that they have purchased . I hope
        that somewhere in the community there is a methodology to
        circumvent this stupidity .

        Below is a snippet from the URL below this :

        Why are there two formats? The key reason for the introduction of
        DVD-R for General media is that it contains content protection
        measures that make it physically impossible to make a bit-for-bit
        copies of CSS encrypted entertainment titles.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pioneer/Files/DVDRMedia-GeneralvsAuthoring.pdf

                Hth , JimL
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