Re: [Dvdrtools-users] Copy DVD to DVD-r...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 01:26, Kris Hermansen wrote:
> 2)  Is there a way to do RAW copies of DVD's yet?  I heard that software 
> violates the DMCA if it can read/write the CSS codes on the DVD.  I have a 
> few DVD video discs that I want to backup, but all my Windows apps say this 
> is an illegal operation and refuse to copy these sectors.  So is there a way 
> to do a bit for bit copy?  In comparison to CD-r, there should be a way to 
> read the USER DATA + EDC/ECC + SUBCODE = EXACT RAW COPY.  Pretty soon we are 
> going to start seeing DVD discs containing anti-copy code to check if these 
> sectors are present.  If anyone has some in depth documentation on the CD 
> and DVD format specs please let me know how to get them.  I heard that you 
> could purchase these from Sony for an outrageous price, but someone must 
> have these seeing that I am only a lowly college student ;-)

I was under the impression that DVD-R(G) didn't support writing those
sectors.

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