I kid you not. I always thought it was like Macrovision on VCR tapes. Because I could presumably plug a male-to-male cord into the speakers and then into a tape deck or something, right? Thus allowing me to effortlessly rip the audio.
Like I said, the headphone jack on the speakers (Creative, don’t know the model) doesn’t work with headphones plugged in while playing DVDs. It does work with any other audio source (Youtube, MP3s, games that don’t run from DVD, etc). But if I use AnyDVD to disable copy protection it works just fine. Why else would that happen?
I doubt that for a couple of reasons:
First, your G1’s USB port is not driven by a USB “host” controller, it uses a USB “device” controller, which means you can use it to plug your phone into a PC (a USB host), not to plug other devices into your phone. USB is not peer-to-peer like Firewire is. Second, even if your phone was a USB host (which it is not), it’s unlikely to have drivers for USB sound devices already on-board, and your phone’s OS doesn’t have the windows-like ability to go find and install the appropriate driver for a new USB device you plug into it.
And on top of all of that, if I were totally wrong about all of this (and having some pretty specific engineering experience in this area I am pretty sure I am not), I still have a pretty good response: your T-Mobile G1 is, by most reasonable definitions, a computer.
