On Wednesday 05 November 2003 6:00 am, you wrote: > > None whatsoever, the driver "reimplementation" is clearly a DMCA > > violation. The proper way to do that is to somehow load the driver and > > let it perform all the checks it wants to perform; a dummy driver that > > returns magic values to bypass the checks is not acceptable. > > Basicly as long as our code: > A.cant run "copied" safedisk disks ("perfect copies" and "no-cd cracks" > aside) and B.cant be modified to run "copied" safedisk disks (e.g. by > disabling some parts of the WINE code that performed checks) > then I think that we would probobly not be violating the DMCA (although > IANAL)
I agree. It would appear that secdrv.sys is not an essential part to the decrypting process. If it were then there would be loads of "secdrv-hacked.sys" type files floating around the internet. In actual fact, most people seem to be able to decrypt the contents without touching this file. Rob