On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is useless with linux players : they do not ask the drive for the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-1 drive always give unconditionally the > key to decrypt the disc. A RPC-2 drive does not. Your RPC-2 drive can > be zoned or not. If it is not, he will refuse to give the key for any > zoned disc. If it is, he will give it only if the zone match or if the > disc is not zoned. The zone change is not done automatically, it has > to be asked by the software. The zone stuff is just to give the key, > the disc is perfectly readable whatever the drive zone is. The drive > does not decrypt itself the data on the disc, it is done by the > software. > > Linux players do not ask for the key (they are not licensed and then > do not have the keys to speak to the drive about this), they crack it > every time you want to read your DVD. That is the whole point of > DeCSS. > > So, do not bother to flash your DVD drive if you are just using Linux.
Thanks for the clarification. So no reason to flash the drive, we have a lot of very good Free DVD players. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la même.
