eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?

George at Orwellian.Org George at Orwellian.Org
Thu Jun 21 11:13:18 PDT 2001


Wobbly Ride wrote:
#    That's true.  However, in order to read data from a DVD, you 
#    must first "authenticate" to the DVD player.  This is before 
#    any decryption takes place.  This is a cryptographic handshake 
#    mechanism using a key. If you do not perform this handshake, 
#    it is not possible to read the data.

Are these DVD controller chips specially contructed
like a clipper chip, or can they be reverse engineered?

Sonce the decryption key is known, why can't
someone burn a more user-friendly chip? (per manufacturer)





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