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Re: [OM] more on videodisks

Subject: Re: [OM] more on videodisks
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:51:04 -0500
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:35:55AM -0400, John Hermanson wrote:
> Does iMac defeat the DVD copyguard?  If so, Jack Valenti, FTC etc. would
> love to hear about it.

There is no copyguard in the sense you're thinking of. The encryption only
serves to make extracting the data from the files on the disk difficult. The
entire disk can be copied verbatim, and the new copy will function just as
the old one did. It's just a smokescreen.

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