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Sigh.
As usual, this topic brings out a lot of misinformed, knee-jerk responses. Unfortunately, ParentalAdvisory and gazpacho are providing their emotional responses at the expense of truth.
The DRM systems incorporated into both Blu-ray and HD-DVD would have to be implemented (or cracked, I suppose) on Linux in order to copy the discs. You might remember the furor around the DeCSS crack that permitted unlicensed playing of DVDs on Linux. Simply copying the raw data may well be possible, but actually viewing the movie on Linux won’t be possible without either licensed software, or a workaround.
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What was untruthful in what I wrote? It seems to pretty much agree with what others are saying? And especially with what you say in this post.
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What was untruthful in what I wrote?
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Well, your first sentence, for one. You opened by stating an opinion that’s unsupportable by objective evidence.
Nonetheless, I do apologize for the snipe (at both you and . It had no place in a GQ thread.
k9copy seems to be the tool you would use. Note the admonition not to make illegal copies!
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There are cracks and workarounds for the DRM on HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray discs for both Linux and Windows. I should point out that someone who has a legit disc of an HD/Blu-Ray DVD and intends only to watch it on their PC can run afoul of the DRM on their Vista PC because they don’t have 100% DRM compliant hardware. Naturally, because of the Reader’s stance on copyright matters, I can’t provide any links, but the stuff’s out there. IIRC, the discs were on the market for about a month or so before they got cracked.
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A hacker has figured out how to get a processing key out of the AACS software, and then put it up. Using it, if you know the volume ID of an individual disc, in theory you can have software write a version of the movie that essentially ignores AACS. That won’t help you past BD+, one of the two other security levels on a Blu-ray disc… except, of course, the latter hasn’t yet been enabled on any released BD movie.
The trusted platform requirements on Vista relate to drivers, not hardware. In theory, every single Vista machine on the planet could be made 100% compliant without changing one hardware component. As long as all of the drivers used get certified, there’s no problem.
If your video card supports HDCP output (as pretty much all cards from 2006 on do), chances are pretty good that your machine is 100% high definition disc compatible. My Vista box, in which only the video card is less than four years old, works fine with Blu-ray movies. And, of course, all of this relates strictly to HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. Other high definition content (such as downloaded movies) work fine regardless.