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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Grant wrote: |
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> > I'd like to back up the files on my DVD-Audio discs. The files are |
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> > encrypted and I don't want to decrypt them, I just want to back them |
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> > up. I'm getting I/O errors when I try to cp the files, and I'm |
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> > guessing it's because of the encryption. Does anyone know of a method |
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> > that would back these discs up in their encrypted form? |
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> That doesn't work that way. What you get is actually garbage and is not |
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> "encrypted" (otherwise you would be able to copy it to another DVD). |
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> Creating a copy of an audio DVD which is itself encrypted would defeat |
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> the purpose of a copy protection, since even though encrypted, it's |
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> still a copy, and the protection wants to prevent that. If you can copy |
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> it, it wouldn't be protected :P |
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There is no copy protection on a DVD. There is however a region specific |
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_usage_ "protection". |
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You should be able to copy the DVD using dvdbackup. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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