DeCSS is the only way to get a perfict digital copy of the movie on a normal computer. (but you could use a video in and compress, or something. )
Not necessarily true... I don't have any links handy, but I have read about various software DVD players that have been hacked in order to copy DVDs. I recall one neat trick that sat just below the video driver and captured the raw pixel data as it was being written (although this would still need to be recompressed and hence lose a bit of quality). Another one supposedly read the process memory of the DVD player program and grabbed the MPEG2 stream after it had been decrypted but before it was handed off to the MPEG codec. That would give you a perfect digital copy; the same exact data infact that DeCSS would have...
The scary part is that since they're not actually breaking the encryption algorithm, does that mean that the anti-circumvention part of the DCMA wouldn't apply? Of course it would still be illegal to make copies using it, but it could probably be posted more freely than DeCSS can now...:(
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Not necessarily true... I don't have any links handy, but I have read about various software DVD players that have been hacked in order to copy DVDs. I recall one neat trick that sat just below the video driver and captured the raw pixel data as it was being written (although this would still need to be recompressed and hence lose a bit of quality). Another one supposedly read the process memory of the DVD player program and grabbed the MPEG2 stream after it had been decrypted but before it was handed off to the MPEG codec. That would give you a perfect digital copy; the same exact data infact that DeCSS would have...
The scary part is that since they're not actually breaking the encryption algorithm, does that mean that the anti-circumvention part of the DCMA wouldn't apply? Of course it would still be illegal to make copies using it, but it could probably be posted more freely than DeCSS can now... :(