What is CSS? And how can I remove it so as to play and copy the DVD?
Content Scrambling System (CSS) is created by the Hollywood Studios to prevent DVD movies from being pirated. The CSS encrypts the data on a DVD and requires a special key to decrypt it. Only DVD player developers can get the key from the studios so that their products could decrypt the data on the fly during the playback. You can see the folders and files of a movie DVD in a DVD-ROM drive, but if you just simply copy the content to computer, the copy you get will not be watchable. Therefore before you copy a DVD movie you have to rip the protection from it first. However the protection systems is rather easy to defeat by many decrypting applications. For example, there is a powerful freeware for unlocking DVD movies named DVD43. After the DVD movie is unlocked by DVD43, most applications can read the DVD movie freely without changing any setting of the applications or the computer system. The decrypting process takes merely several seconds. It is easy to find such software using searc
