"It seems to me that every body is forgetting that they aren’t trying to stop end-users ripping the DVD’s"
Umm yes they are, did you read the article properally??
"Shall not be designed to descramble scrambled CSS data when the DVD disc containing such CSS data and associated CSS keys is not physically present in the DVD player or DVD drive"
This means you would not be able to rip the dvd to you hdd/portable device and play from the hdd/portable device without there being a dvd drive in said device.
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RE:Resistance is Futile
"It seems to me that every body is forgetting that they aren’t trying to stop end-users ripping the DVD’s"
Umm yes they are, did you read the article properally??
"Shall not be designed to descramble scrambled CSS data when the DVD disc containing such CSS data and associated CSS keys is not physically present in the DVD player or DVD drive"
This means you would not be able to rip the dvd to you hdd/portable device and play from the hdd/portable device without there being a dvd drive in said device.