Re: copying dvd's to hard drive

From: Anton Erasmus (junk_at_junk.net)
Date: 09/13/03 

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:02:51 +0200

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:31:18 GMT, Alan Connor
<alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:46:53 +0200, Anton Erasmus <junk@junk.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 03:55:52 GMT, Alan Connor
>><alanconnor@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On 10 Sep 2003 20:40:50 -0700, Scott <googlegroups@scottsavarese.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just bought a dvd drive and I want to copy some of my movies to my
>>>> hard drive so that I don't have to carry them while I travel... So, I
>>>> go to do a
>>>> dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dvds/iceage bs=32768
>>>> But, it fails:
>>>> dd: reading `/dev/sr0': Input/output error
>>>> 83+1 records in
>>>> 83+1 records out
>>>>
>>>> My bet is that the problem lies in the copy protection. Is there any
>>>> way to do the copying?
>>>>
>> [Stupid Answer Snipped] Original messages was missing.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Anton Erasmus
>>
>
>
>I am ashamed to see Linux people demonstrating skill at thievery.
>
>
>Maybe someone ought to just walk in your shop and take an item and walk out
>with it.
>
>After all, you have so MANY of them.
>
>
>And you didn't make them yourself. You didn't even transport them yourself.
>
>
>Oh. When someone steals from YOU, its a crime. But when you still from
>someone else, its okay.
>
>
>Sure do understand why you hide behind a false name, coward and thief.
>
>
>
>
>
>Alan C

My address is just spam proofed. My "Reply-to" address is valid.

I personally are more concerned about the morality of an action than
about the legality of an action. Being from a country where many
things were legal, but morally totaly unaceptable, I find the
distinction to be very important. (Country is South Africa)

To me being able to remove the macrovison is a complete moral use of
DeCSS. The macrovision system screws around with the sync signal and
prevents one to view the DVD on many older TVs. The zone locking is
also just a way to make more money. Many DVDs are not released in all
zones. So if I happen to want to get a DVD on the American Civil War,
then chances are that it is not available in zone 2.

AFAIK the recording industry have actually tried to make it a crime
for someone to BUY a DVD player that can play a different zone.

There are many things which are totally legal which are morally
unaceptable. The legal system is supposed to be moral, but it has been
corrupted to such an extend that legality an morality are 2 totally
different concepts.

Regards
   Anton Erasmus

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