On 16 May 2009, at 17:46, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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Certainly I have copied disks using `dd` a number of times, PRIOR to
decryption / ripping. However I cannot state the drives' status for
sure - most of mine have region-free firmware applied as soon as I
get
them.
There are still a lot of DVD-Video media that don't use CSS.
I have certainly cloned region-protected DVDs on a number of occasions
using `dd`. These disks have given no read errors, and the subsequent
encrypted .iso image has produced perfectly fine rips.
Stroller.
