Message-ID: <6874b65c@news.ausics.net> From: Computer Nerd Kev Subject: Re: DVD-Video DRM Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10421sd$35564$4@dont-email.me> <1042qem$3dil1$1@dont-email.me> <1044eug$3p5ha$3@dont-email.me> <104as16$1d2v4$3@dont-email.me> <6868fbb4$0$11443$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <104au7q$1dse1$1@dont-email.me> <104bg1e$1igkp$1@dont-email.me> <104davd$220mr$4@dont-email.me> <686a51b6$0$8598$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104ed5k$29dh6$1@dont-email.me> <68716003$0$423$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104uk4q$276dl$1@dont-email.me> <104vjom$2bqoq$3@dont-email.me> <104vndi$2lkmj$1@dont-email.me> <6873aada$0$11454$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10519l9$2vtuk$1@dont-email.me> <687484ef@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/2.4.31 (i686)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 14 Jul 2025 17:48:44 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 42 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69566 c186282 wrote: > On 7/14/25 12:17 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Nuno Silva wrote: >>> Uh, wasn't the region lock nowadays (read: possibly the past two >>> decades?) handled by the *firmware*? Similar to why earlier drives would >>> give you scrambled output without "authenticating" with the CSS keys, >>> but newer ones give I/O errors? So libdvdcss would do nothing other than >>> let you play CSS-scrambled discs from the region the firmware is >>> currently set to accept. >> >> Libdvdcss cracks the encryption (when present) by brute force in >> software. In my experience that can take a while, although I think >> there's some caching ability for next time you play the same disc >> (though I rip such discs so I don't have to bother with it again). >> I think I also had it fail once but that might have been a >> scratched disc. Generally I still try to avoid DVDs from other >> regions, although DVDs marked Region 2 only are often really Region >> 2/4 so play fine here in Aus. > > Look, by SOME defs you're a CRIMINAL here ... trying > to STEAL rightfully-owned content. I guess it would only be criminal if decoding the data was an offence, and a region-free drive/player would do that without Libdvdcss, so no more criminal than using one of those. Or maybe it depends on what's considered "circumventing" restrictions. > "Free For All" is NOT a biz model. You don't > "just deserve" commercial content. What EGO ! > What HUBRIS ! I like to paraphrase out loud the unskippable "WARNING" legal disclaimers they put before DVDs here about places that home DVDs aren't allowed to be screened (come on, how big is the oil rig workers' entertainment market really anyway?). "Warning: You are watching a DVD! Don't you know you could be fined thousands of dollars for watching this DVD? You could go for prison for watching this DVD! Jesus Christ what are you doing? STOP!!!" -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#