31 Mar
2005
31 Mar
'05
11:21 a.m.
Hi Serge,
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:58:49PM +0200, Serge Marelli wrote:
<snip>
played back on unauthorized hardware. Until Johansen
wrote his software
utility, which he called DeCSS, you could copy the bits from a DVD to
your computer hard drive, but because those bits were scrambled, you
couldn't play a movie from those copied bits.
... and their new scheme, dubbed "AACS", is still a *playback*
protection, not a *copy* protection.
So, if you can do a 1:1 copy of a "AACS-protected" DVD, you still
have a working copy... sounds like these people will never learn.
Greets Eric