From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 1 9:47: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACFED37B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:47:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11376 invoked by uid 100); 1 Mar 2002 17:47:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.48787.947758.22079@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:46:59 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DVD+RW In-Reply-To: <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> References: <3C7F80DC.B63138D8@centtech.com> <20020301172757.GA421@raggedclown.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cliff Sarginson types: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:23:40AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > Anyone played with one under FreeBSD yet? I don't see much in the way of > > support for it under any free OS yet, except for a little bit under linux. > When the cost of them approaches sanity levels I am sure someone will > start writing support software for them...but it is helpful if you can > afford to buy one if you are going to write a driver for it :) There's just a little bit for FreeBSD as well. cdrecord - and I believe burncd - can write data to them. Until support for the UDF file system is available, they're basically just big CD-RW's. > Anyway this is where the copy-protection worm is *really* going to start > to turn...depending on which zone you live in I guess. That worm is already turning. Take a look at SSSCA, which exists because the DMCA isn't sufficient. If that becomes law, it could be illegal to buy a Windows PC and install FreeBSD on it. It might also be illegal to buy a PC without a pre-installed OS on it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message