WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> All wrote:


 WC> Well John Doe U.S. American citizen I've figured out what it takes to
 WC> play my
 WC> legally purchased copy of Ultraviolet on DVD.

Goody for you.

 WC> It took Linux mplayer just under 18 hours to crack the encryption.
 WC> Beats purchasing a mandated dvdrecording TV-video card however.

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

 WC> I'm now rerunning the same inquiry but now writing the output to
 WC> file via redirect as I can no longer read my handwriting.

Uh huh...

 WC> I've the center, width, heighth
 WC> scan rate and encryption key now.

"I've a bike!" Di. Do. Da. Pffft Ack.

 WC> Looking forward to doing this very same thing with every legally
 WC> purchased DVD movie.

Goody for you.

 WC> Fortunately no-one anywhere else in the world could figure this stuff out
 WC> by reading the accompanying documents elsewise the terrorists could watch
 WC> the "Weekend at Bernies" DVD thus destroying the American
way of life.

With every post you show the world what a moron you are.

The restrictions have nothing to do with terrorists. The movie industry are
the people you should aim your ire at.

 WC> So stubbornly I move fowrward knowing now my video center, w,h, video driver,
 WC> vertical scan rate mode and encrytion key.

That's nice, everyone should know what their "video cneter" is.

 WC> All that remains to do is another do-over as I can no longer read
my handwriting :-)
 WC> So I'll redirect the next run's output to file for another mean run
of 18 hours
 WC> or whatever the random number generator decides upon.

18 hours? You have a slow system.

 WC> I got the encryption key this run as well and the missing codecs.conf
 WC> file I surmise needs to be created in either
 WC> /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf
 WC> or
 WC> /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf

That's nice.

 WC> Well, there went another 12 minutes time I'll never get back figuring out all
 WC> this really tough stuff out plus of course the 18 hours my Pentium 450 MHz
 WC> hammered the DVD with randomly generated encryption key tries.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Get dvdshrink.

 WC> I may be extremely slow between the ears Maurice but I do plod along with
 WC> a kind of purpose.

Maurice isn't here. Maybe you should try FIDO LINUX.

 WC> My purpose in life is now to watch this darn movie without shelling out
 WC> for additional DVD players that the industry demanded of our elected
 WC> leaders.

It has nothing to do with "our elected leaders."

 WC> Then too my legally purchase audeo CD's are failing so I must repurchase them
 WC> in new media, or just say the heck with it.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 WC> I've no idea if this applies to laws.

You could have stopped after the 3rd word in that sentence.

 WC> By these easy steps I avoid running afoul of the Patriot Act
 WC> and unlimited detention with no access to habeas corpus.

What a blithering idiot. This has nothing to do with the Patriot Act, moron.

Ed

-- 
"Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political
jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human
character, the inference would be, that there is not
sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that
nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them
from destroying and devouring one another."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 55,
15 February 1788)


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