On 2017-04-28 17:34, Khelben Blackstaff wrote:
Forgive me if i misunderstood, but i think we are mixing two separate issues in this thread which leads to the confusion. Region Coding has nothing to do with CSS encryption.
1) There are non-encrypted movie dvds and there are encrypted ones (almost every commercial movie from a studio). Try inserting a dvd and dd it to the disk (or mount it and copy the files) and you should get "read errors".
No. You can download dvds as .iso files from torrents and such. If you try to play them, you see the decss thing working on them. And you can run on them tools to rip them open into the separate streams, which then can be played. Yes, the error "read error" appears on the direct copy files, but it is for another reason. It is also possible that some commercial DVDs use another type of copy protection on top of it.
2) Region Coding is used to prevent you bying media from another region. For example, if you browse amazon.com, there are movie titles that mention "uk import, region2 pal format" and respectively amazon.co.uk and amazon.it has titles that say "us import, region 1".
Yes. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)