Posted by Rick on 10/11/05 14:42

"Impmon" <impmon@digi.mon> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:28:18 GMT, Modemac <modemac@modemac.com> wrote:
>
>>If these folks are to be believed, then eventually they will do away
>>with those stupid "regional" codes that prevent Japanese and European
>>DVDs from being played on DVD players in the USA -- and vice versa.
>
> Well, it'd be hacked anyway. Current DVD players were easily hacked
> and if you happened to own a player that can't be hacked for
> multi-region you're likely to have a DVD burner where you could rip
> the DVD, and burn a region-free DVD copy.

The CSS protection of DVD was not hacked at all, it was accidentally
released in its unencrypted form by XING. The story goes that one of the
versions of the XING DVD Player was distributed, but one of the developers
of the program unintentionally included up the CSS code in its original form
and some 12-year-old kid just happened to stumble across this oversight and
then he just told the world about it. The code was never reverse-engineered
or hacked as you might say (and it never could have been), it was just
someone's (ultimately huge) mistake that now makes it possible for us to rip
every DVD in existence ... before that you still had to pay for all your
DVDs.

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