<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But the H'Wood types WANTED you to have to purchase another disk when<br>your first one was destroyed. They saw it as a "revenue stream". So they
<br>lobbied for the "Digital Millenium Copyright Act", making it illegal to<br>bypass the CSS system in order to make a backup of a "protected" DVD.</blockquote><div><br>For this reason, I believe it's still technically illegal to _watch_ a "protected" DVD on a Linux machine, because doing so requires decrypting CSS with a device that hasnt been licensed to do so. They dont just want a "revenue stream", they want to continue making the highest possible profit, while continuing to lower the quality, effort, and cost of producing this "valuable" content.
<br>-J<br></div><br></div>