Can one author a DVD with CSS included?

Steve Schear schear at attbi.com
Fri May 16 16:18:49 PDT 2003


At 19:02 2003-05-16 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov>
> > Are there no utilities that let Joe Sixpack record his own
> > CSS-"protected" movies?  One would have to choose
> > a CSS key, but these are known, as is the CSS algorithm.
>
>The CSS keys are in an area of the disc that cannot be written to by any DVD
>recorder.  Only the DVD-pressing machines can create CSS-protected discs.


I think not.  Anyone can buy Authoring disks and PC-DVD recorders are 
openly available to record such disks.  Both cost more than General Purpose 
disks.

steve 





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