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From: aaronsw <rssfeeds@example.com>
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Subject: Apple: Heinous DVD Pirates
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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:00:07 -0000
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URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000644
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Date: 2002-10-08T01:21:33-06:00
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DeCSS detractors have repeatedly claimed that DeCSS needs to be stopped because
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it makes perfect digital copies of DVDs possible. Recently, in private email,
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Ernest Miller claimed that doing so would be a violation of the DMCA. In this
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in-depth special report, I show that using perfectly legal, (I assume)
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licensed, off-the-shelf consumer software, copying DVDs is easy and in many
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ways encouraged.
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*Tools:*
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1 PowerBook G4 with slot-loading DVD drive (any model should work)
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1 Monsters, Inc. Collector's Edition DVD (any DVD should work)
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1 copy of Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar"
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*Process:*
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1. Insert DVD into drive. Notice how Jaguar helpfully loads the DVD Player for
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you.
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2. Open the DVD (it appears on the desktop) and drag the VIDEO_TS folder to
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your hard drive. Ejct the DVD.
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3. In DVD Player, select "Open VIDEO_TS Folder..." from the File menu. Use the
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dialog that appears to select the VIDEO_TS folder on your hard drive.
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Now the DVD plays just like it would were the DVD in the drive. By extension, I
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could also put the DVD up on my site for you to download and watch. I could
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share it via a P2P network. And I haven't done anything to decrypt the DVD or
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violate the DMCA: I've used only basic tools available to all normal computer
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users on my (I assume) fully-licensed consumer laptop.
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*Disclaimer:* Seth Schoen, whose opinion I highly respect on these matters,
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finds it unlikely that the DVD was CSS-encrypted if this was possible. I am not
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sure how to verify if the DVD is CSS-encrypted. If someone has a suggestion,
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please let me know. However, if it is true, then it's very interesting that
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Disney has released such a major movie without encryption.
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