Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:56:01 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD playback Message-ID: <200101210556.f0L5u1F73910@medusa.kfu.com>
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I got xine running and have tested it out with a couple of unencrypted DVDs (pr0n seems to be mostly unencrypted. Once again, adult entertainment leads the traditional industry in understanding technology). It seems to work pretty well modulo some bugs, although it takes most of an Athlon 600 to do it, and I can't get it really to do anything except play the individual vob files (dvd://vts_nn_m.vob). It would be naughty to suggest that I have done anything more than this. However, speaking in a purely hypothetical vane, I can suggest one thing that would be something someone would have to overcome. Pioneer used to make a drive called a 303. They currently make a drive that is model 305. The major difference between the two is that the 305 has region locking in the drive itself. The 303 did not. The wrinkle is that the 305 must be told at least once (and no more than 5 times) which region to accept. If you never tell it, it will petulently refuse to play any region locked media at all. If someone were to wish to be naughty, one would have to plug their DVD drive into a Windows box and set the region once before attempting to use DeCSS or other naughty software to playback encrypted media. Of course, this would not be required on a drive without region locking, but all drives now come with it, unfortunately. I have not read the DMCA. I hope it dies in the courts. Fair use would suggest that it would be legal to set up a decrypting service for people's DVDs. Mail in a region 2 DVD and $20 and get back your DVD and a copy of it as an MPEG-4 CD-R. So long as the conversion house doesn't preserve a copy of it, this would be as legal as PAL-to-NTSC conversion for personal use (which I believe *is* legal, isn't it?). IANAL, of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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