

This protection method is not to add a key that requires people to enter for unlocking the decrypted DVD. That's how VideoSolo software reads and rips the protected DVD and Blu-ray Discs. But for players like consoles from Sony, Toshiba, and other consumer electronics vendors, as well as software providers for PCs like VideoSolo and ATI DVD will provide the unlock key directly to unlock the DVD disc. Generally, people need a 5-byte or 40-byte key to unlock the content. The popular technologies used to encrypt DVDs include Content Scrambling System (CSS), Sony ARccOS Protection, and DVD Region Code.ĬSS is a kind of digital data encryption method used for protecting reading media files directly from a DVD disc without using a unlock key.

This part is going to introduce the DVD encryption types that may have been added to protect the commercial DVD discs today. Remember not to rip copy-protected DVDs for any commercial purpose and we suggest referring to the DVD copyright laws in your countries before doing so.ģ.
