{"id":2137,"date":"2005-03-27T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2005-03-27T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T17:30:00","slug":"damn-their-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/03\/27\/13\/30\/damn-their-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Their Eyes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SO I got this new DVD recorder (NEC 3500) and, just for once, wanted to use it to make an honest backup (!) of a DVD that was quite rare. But when I tried to use the backup software, it all kept crapping out. A quick search revealed that DVD hardware itself these days is being routinely crippled with something called &#8220;Rip Lock&#8221; to prevent such backups. Another quick search found that, of course, this action has provoked a strong response and now hundreds of otherwise-idle <a href=\"http:\/\/club.cdfreaks.com\/showthread.php?t=105995\">crazy teen hackers<\/a> have now become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdrinfo.com\/Forum\/tm.asp?m=80060&#038;mpage=1&#038;key=&#038;#80060\">experts in hacking DVD recorder firmware<\/a> and there is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micheldeboer.nl\/firmware\/3500.html\">huge cottage industry<\/a> in updating and improving the &#8220;official&#8221;, crippled hardware. In many case, this adds new functionality and increases burn speeds, media compatibility, and so on. This is yet another illustration of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Gilmore\">John Gilmore<\/a>&#8216;s early observation concerning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=lang_en&#038;safe=off&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=%22The+Internet+treats+censorship+as+damage%2C+and+routes+around+it%22&#038;btnG=Search\">Internet and censorship<\/a>. Needless to say, after a quick reflash the DVD recorder is now ripping happily. A nice touch is that these hacked releases add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signvideo.com\/btst-d.htm\">bitsetting<\/a>, which lets you burn and DVD and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdplusrw.org\/Article.asp?mid=0&#038;sid=2&#038;aid=42\">digitally &#8220;stamp&#8221; it<\/a> as an original, factory-pressed disc. This fools some fussy or otherwise suspicious players that might refuse to play a non-factory pressed &#8220;original&#8221; DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO I got this new DVD recorder (NEC 3500) and, just for once, wanted to use it to make an honest backup (!) of a DVD that was quite rare. But when I tried&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}