9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
2:14 p.m.
Phil,
Can you suggest any good sources to learn more about VideoLAN and other
products to get around this stupid and the other rediculous DVD "features".
I'm not that knowledgeable about DVD but I hate being forced to watch all
their ads and other crap.
Joe
At 12:21 AM 7/10/04 +0100, Phil wrote:
In message
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Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
Not that you can avoid the advertising on DVDs
anymore. I rented one a
few months ago that wouldn't even let you skip them! If I wasn't so lazy
at that point I would taken it back to the video store and demanded a
refund.
That's why I use VideoLAN's "VLC" player with the
"Simple DVD Decode" driver.
"Forced viewing" no longer exists - just drag the seek-bar near the end of
the slider and wait all of two seconds for the trailers to finish.
DVD-CSS crypto is braindead anyway. IIRC the key-management system alone can
be broken with 2^16 guesses anyway, which means that blocking "leaked" keys
is useless - most CSS decoders just bruteforce the keys anyway.
I really do love the way the MPAA handled it though - file lawsuits against
any website that had the DeCSS source code available for download.
Unfortunately, to do this, the MPAA had to include the source code in the
lawsuit. Said source code can - IIRC - be obtained from court records by
anyone who wants it. Nice :)
Later.
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