Making a copy required ripping and playing everything from HD and/or recompressing the MPEG2 video, both of which require being able to decrypt the CSS-encrypted data. ![]() I mentioned DL DVDs because pretty much all factory-pressed retail and rental movies come in DL disks, and for years that pretty much meant that a direct copy, even without touching the CSS encryption at all, was technically impossible. ![]() Welcome to the contraddictions of the DMCA: "Sure, you can make backups for your personal use.unless making said backup requires breaking a copy-protection mechanism" *grin* *rolleyes* However, if you need to break the encryption or any other explicit security feature just in order to be able to perform the backup, then suddenly it's not legal. Sure, if you get a double-layer DVD-R and just directly clone a protected double-layer DVD movie's disk for your own use with a "dumb" DVD copying program (all of them will copy and make images of encrypted DVDs, contrary to popular belief), preserving the encryption, the copy will remain encrypted, will still play in ordinary DVD players etc. It is and it is not at the same time, thanks to the Powers Of The DMCA (TM).
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