-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2006-03-20 at 14:50 -0000, Peter Collier wrote:
If your dvd drive is set to region 1, is it still possible to copy the files off a region 2 disk onto your computer? If you can, then would you be able to watch the dvd using the copied files on your computer assuming libdvdcss is installed?
The encryption scheme used by dvd movies does not impede copying files. You may make a byte by byte copy, dvd to dvd without problems, provided, that is, that the destination dvd has the same size. Or dvd to hd, no problem at all. The resulting files will be equal to the originals, and equally encrypted. What the encryption scheme impedes you is playback only. And, in linux, the only way to play back a dvd movie is by decrypting it, using the (claimed to be illegal) decss lib. Region is ignored. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHvHstTMYHG2NR9URAkOlAJ91o6pXyLaFhRgGVYlqXcoCleO02QCfRUfA PjtRU69qIxfjqMK3Qz3rWMI= =fDL5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----