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Re: DVD-Video DRM

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From Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Subject Re: DVD-Video DRM
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
References (19 earlier) <6873aada$0$11454$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <pan$a938$99e5591f$51e667e9$84cf5658@linux.rocks> <10519l9$2vtuk$1@dont-email.me> <687484ef@news.ausics.net> <zLycnYNRbuCQFun1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com>
Date 2025-07-14 17:48 +1000
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> On 7/14/25 12:17 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> 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!!!"

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