"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are > encrypted. I don't remember what the heck it is that you have to do to > actually get enough of a handle on the data to be able to use something > like DeCSS on it. I saw an interesting talk entitled "Decrypting DVD" > at MIT a couple of years ago, and this is the first I've thought of it > since then.
Probably http://www.mit.edu/iap/dvd/; that page also has several links to DVD resources, including both political-layer things ("DVD Copy Control Association") and actual useful things ("LinuxVideo project", "Gallery of CSS Descramblers"). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]