Messages in this thread | | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Fri, 24 Apr 1998 04:14:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: driver for Creative Labs DVD kits |
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At least with the IDE DVD drive that I have, plugging it directly into an IDE port and using the regular Linux ide-cd driver works just fine for reading both CD and the copy protected sections of the DVD's.
There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
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