alt Hacker NewsHow was CSS supposed to protect against copying the encrypted data? We should not need to decrypt the video to duplicate the disc.
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dddgghhbbfblk • today at 6:09 AM
It's implemented in drive firmware, so the drive will refuse to read protected sectors without authentication.
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Keys were stored on an area of the disc that wasn't writable on DVD-Rs so you couldn't copy the whole disc.