Can one author a DVD with CSS included?

[Steve Schear]

At 16:44 2003-05-16 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 16:18 2003-05-16 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
> >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.

I stand corrected.  Further research indeed indicates that neither the 
General Purpose or Authoring disks can be used to store CSS data.

steve