[SpamCop-List] Re: [MEDIA] Sony CD Copy Protection Seems To Rely On HackerRootkit

[Steven Maesslein]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:06:48 -0000, Porpoise coughed into spamcop and 
left this in <dkvk6k$9bs$1 at news.spamcop.net>:

>> Use an open-source player (like xine, ogle or mplayer) with libdvdcss
>> (also open source) and it couldn't care less what zone the DVD is
>> supposedly for.
>
> How does that operate with the firmware regioncoding of the DVD player 
> itself? 

It doesn't interact with the region coding of the DVD drive at all. The 
software asks the DVD drive for data that's on the DVD and the DVD gives 
that data out. libdvdcss descrambles it if need be.

Only commercial software - often supplied with DVD drives - interrogates 
the drive to find out its region and compare it with the region of the 
DVD.

-- 
Steve

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