eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?

[David Honig]

At 03:02 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
>David Honig <honig at sprynet.com> wrote:
>> Why would it be?  You don't need DeCSS to copy the files on DVDs.
>
>No, but you do need to authenticate with the DVD-ROM drive.  To do
>this, at least under Linux, you have to invoke the proper ioctls, and

Linux is a well known anti-american operating system. :-P

>do a cryptographic authentication procedure with the drive.  Code to
>do this is covered under "circumvention device" in the DMCA according
>to the 2600-MPAA case.

Not if you have lawfully paid for the content.

>If you don't do this authentication, the drives I have worked with
>will just spit out zeros instead of the real data.

If a cartridge doesn't have (C) SEGA in it, it won't play... ergo,
(C) SEGA is not protected.

GAME OVER.

Cheers,
dh