There is a protocol that the hardware decoder boards use to
tell the DVD drive that they are a licensed implementation and should
be allowed to read the copy protected sectors as well. I have been
told that this protocol can be done entirely in software with a
standard IDE port. Hopefully, somebody will reverse engineer this and
make it a demand loaded kernel module. (Seriously, there is a lot
that you are allowed to do with copyrighted material that this sort of
hardware restriction prevents, and there are other important political
issues involved relating to your rights to do as you please with the
computer equipment that you bought and paid for.)
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