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RThurmont wrote:Is it legal to circumvent the P-UO feature in DVDs, out of curiosity, or does that constitute a violation of the DMCA?

You can do it if you rip the DVD to your hard drive as an ISO using the option 'Remove P-UOP's' in DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink and then burning the resulting file for use in a settop player.

However, as others have said, the DMCA makes it illegal if the disc is encrypted.

And the crappy CSS system is considered encryption in this case so you're out of luck unless the DVD is from some chepass producer who didn't bother putting CSS on his disc (so far, I had only one such disc). So if you are in the US you are screwed.

Glocksman wrote:

RThurmont wrote:Is it legal to circumvent the P-UO feature in DVDs, out of curiosity, or does that constitute a violation of the DMCA?

You can do it if you rip the DVD to your hard drive as an ISO using the option 'Remove P-UOP's' in DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink and then burning the resulting file for use in a settop player.

However, as others have said, the DMCA makes it illegal if the disc is encrypted.

How is it illegal to monkey around with something that you *own*?

I think the theory is that you paid for the actual object but you don't own the technology that it uses to work, so you can't alter it except how they'll let you. To me it sounds like if you bought furniture and the maker had the right to tell you how you could re-upholster it.

The idea of being forced to watch the universally shitty local ads we have around here makes my skin crawl. I'd sooner just pay for a business cable Internet line and download my shows from BitTorrent than sit through that shit.