eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?

[David Honig]

At 02:36 PM 6/21/01 +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
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>The DVDCCA license requires that DVD equipment never allow access to
>the raw digital data.
>http://www.dvdcca.org/data/css/css_proc_spec11.pdf

If you buy the media (and more importantly, the license to play
the content) you can use any hardware/software you like.  Period.
[1]

That some folks (usually synthetic, ie, corps) pay a fee for IP 
from whoever is irrelevent.

The record-pressers can't tell you whose needle to buy.  Well they
can, but you can ignore them.

If you've cleanroom rev-eng'ed what you need to interop.  E.g.,
DeCSS.

>This ties in nicely with the content manufacturers' dream of a
>tamed digital environment where neither piracy nor fair use is
>possible, and everything is pay-per-view, controlled and metered.

Where a remotely-readable meter logs all licensed entertainment
that's entered your brainstem each month.  


Tilting at windmills made of sand,

DH

"All the normalities of the social contract are  
abandoned in war"    Jack Valenti MPAA pres, 
in LATimes on Kerry's war crimes

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[1] That remote-music storage dotcom which required you to have a meatspace CD
before letting you play the content should have needed *no* license,
permit, or
blessing from the producers.