eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?
Lars Gaarden
larsg at trustix.com
Thu Jun 21 04:48:30 PDT 2001
David Honig wrote:
> At 03:02 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
>
>>David Honig <honig at sprynet.com> wrote:
>>do a cryptographic authentication procedure with the drive. Code to
>>do this is covered under "circumvention device" in the DMCA according
>>to the 2600-MPAA case.
>
> Not if you have lawfully paid for the content.
As read by the MPAA, the DMCA enable them to sell you a locked house
and then drag you to court if you try to pick the lock.
>>If you don't do this authentication, the drives I have worked with
>>will just spit out zeros instead of the real data.
>
> If a cartridge doesn't have (C) SEGA in it, it won't play... ergo,
> (C) SEGA is not protected.
Didn't the original IBM BIOS use this trick. e.g, look for a
'copyright ibm' string in the BIOS image?
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LarsG
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