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To: DiViT who wrote (25825)	11/27/1997 9:46:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Microsparc, or Sparclite set tops..................................... Subject: EMBEDDED SYS. /FIRMWARE/San Mateo From: stephen@ontrackpro.com (Stephen A. DeFranco) Date: 1997/11/25 Message-ID: <65flrr$jai$28@feedme.news.iswest.net> Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered [More Headers] EMBEDDED SYS. /FIRMWARE/San Mateo Senior Software Engineer QUALIFICATIONS: BASIC: BSEE and 5 years experience. Firmware development for embedded systems using RTOS. Debugging using in Circuit Emulators. Developing and documenting device drivers, API PREFERRED: MSEE and 5 to 7 years experience. Experience using Motorola 68xxx/sparclite embedded controllers. Using Plicrotek in CCT emulators. Developing Set Top Box firmware. Developing graphics API. DUTIES: Contribute to Set Top Box design specification to provide a development platform for customers using C-Cube chipsets for their set top box designs. Support Tech Marketing to resolve customer issues. Create test benches to test C-Cube chipsets and microcode as a part of overall release test plan. To apply for this position, or others that you are qualified for, please send your resume to Stephen at OnTrack Professional Employment, Inc. 47000 Warm Springs Boulevard, Suite 290 Fremont, CA. 94539 Phone (510) 252-1800 Fax (510) 252-1808 e-mail stephen@ontrackpro.com Thanks

To: DiViT who wrote (25825)	11/30/1997 6:37:00 AM
From: Carnac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Below is the original SoftDVD crack message.... Originally it was posted in alt.cracks, isn't there anymore but I suppose if someone asked there it would get reposted rather quick. BTW: Reportedly it works if you have the right versions of SoftDVD. yes, it works with Compaq's ATI-RagePro chip and Softpeg combination shipped until at least 1 month ago. Good thing Haber fled Zoran in time! -------------------------------------- >From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) >Newsgroups: alt.video.dvd >Subject: SoftDVDCrack >Date: 4 Nov 1997 06:05:39 +0100 >Organization: Replay and Company UnLimited >Message-ID: <63maf3$1u4@basement.replay.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: basement.replay.com >X-XS4ALL-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 06:05:42 CET >X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting >X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to <abuse@replay.com> >X-URL: replay.com >Lines: 107 >Xref: chaos.crhc.uiuc.edu alt.video.dvd:64380 A few days ago some guy on IRC was distributing the note below, claiming it would be possible to use SoftDVD (a software DVD decoder by a company named Compcore) to duplicate copy protected DVDs. I was very sceptical. But since I happened to have the required equipment (MMX PC with a DVD-ROM) I actually tried it. Works great! I just played part of 'Species' off a CD-R. Thought people might be interested to see what's possible these days. And no: I will NOT post ccmpeg.dll. JLF ===================================================================== SoftDVDCrack is a little add-on utility for SoftDVD. it allows u to make descrambled copies of your favourite DVD titles. how it works? SoftDVDCrack first uses two exported entry points in ccmpeg.dll (part of SoftDVD) to unlock the disc and a specific title. then it reads each sector of the title, calls SoftDVD's descrambler module, and finally writes the descrambled sectors to a file. this file no longer has copy protection. It can be played with any MPEG2 decoder. what is it good for? u can use SoftDVDCrack to make personal backups of your own DVDs. almost anything else, like copying the files to CDs and distributing them, is most likely illegal. don't do it! in addition to being a handy utility, SoftDVDCrack shows how easy DVD software decoders make it to bypass DVD scrambling. browsing thru media coverage of DVD copy protection i assumed software DVD would have to have some tricky protection against accessing decrypted data if they wanted to get a CSS licence. this looked like a nice challenge. i was a bit disappointed to see that SoftDVD actually has no protection at all against this kind of use. It was a matter of hours to locate the descrambler entry point. there may be some protection in SoftDVD attempting to make it difficult to analyse the actual descrambling algorithms. but who would really care about how the algorithms work. one can simply use SoftDVD's descrambler as a black box that does its job on any PC. And it can be much more conveniently duplicated than hardware descrambler chips. Instructions: 1. Get an MMX PC with Windows 95, a DVD drive, and a DVD disc. 1. Get the SoftDVD DLL ccmpeg.dll (date 8/13/97, size 539136 bytes). It ships with some COMPAQ PCs (4840, 4850). 2. Get msvcrt.dll (Microsoft Visual C runtime library). It is installed as part of many program packages, for example Internet Explorer 4. 3. Copy ccmpeg.dll and msvcrt.dll to \windows\system. 5. Compile the program listed below and run it in a DOS box. / SoftDVDCrack.cpp / #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> typedef DWORD (WINAPI PFNValidateDisk)(DWORD); typedef DWORD (WINAPI PFNValidateTitle)(DWORD); typedef DWORD (PFNDescramble)(DWORD title, PBYTE address, DWORD count); BYTE buffer[4096]; int main(int argc, char argv[]) { PFNValidateDisk ValidateDisk; PFNValidateTitle ValidateTitle; PFNDescramble Descramble; HINSTANCE hCC; FILE fdin, fdout; DWORD sector, nsectors, title; CHAR inputfile[256]; if(argc!=5) { printf("SoftDVDCrack input_path title_number number_of_sectors output_file\n" "(example: SoftDVDCrack d:\\video_ts 1 -1 movie.mpg)\n"); exit(-1); } sscanf(argv[2],"%d",&title); sscanf(argv[3],"%d",&nsectors); hCC=LoadLibrary("ccmpeg.dll"); if (!hCC) {printf("ccmpeg.dll missing\n"); exit(-1);} ValidateDisk=(PFNValidateDisk)GetProcAddress(hCC,"CCMPEG_Validate_DVD_Disk"); ValidateTitle=(PFNValidateTitle)GetProcAddress(hCC,"CCMPEG_Validate_DVD_Title"); if (!ValidateDisk\|\|!ValidateTitle) {printf("link failure\n"); exit(-1);} Descramble=(PFNDescramble)((PBYTE)hCC + 0x2ef40); if((PDWORD)Descramble!=0xb80cec83) {printf("wrong ccmpeg.dll version\n"); exit(-1);} if(!ValidateDisk(0)) {printf("cant't validate disc\n"); exit(-1);} if(!ValidateTitle(title)) {printf("cant't validate title\n"); exit(-1);} if(title==0) sprintf(inputfile,"%s\\video_ts.vob",argv[1]); else sprintf(inputfile,"%s\\vts_%02d_1.vob",argv[1],title); fdin=fopen(inputfile,"rb"); fdout=fopen(argv[4],"wb"); if (fdin==0\|\|fdout==0) {printf("file open failure\n"); exit(-1);} for(sector=0;sector!=nsectors;sector++) { if (!fread(buffer,2048,1,fdin)) break; Descramble(title,buffer,1); if (!fwrite(buffer,2048,1,fdout)) break; } fclose(fdin); fclose(fdout); return(0); } /* SoftDVDCrack.cpp **/

To: DiViT who wrote (25825)	11/30/1997 12:48:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

20,000 audio-video titles available in China.................... chinadaily.net State to get tough on copyright violators COPYRIGHT offenders had better look out. China's copyright administration departments will focus next year on cracking down on breaches of copyright and helping to improve the legal standing and quality of books and audio-video products. Sources with the National Copyright Administration of China said it is to train local copyright authorities to enforce the law more effectively next year. Training of this nature has been organized this year and has obtained good results, said an official with the administration. "Copyright protection is a protracted task that requires regular inspections and strengthened law enforcement," said the official who requested anonymity. He stressed that his administration will crack down harder on copyright infringers in the coming year and co-operate with customs authorities to fight against smuggling of illegal audio-video products. In the past some production lines manufacturing unauthorized CDs were closed down by the government. Some of these have now been re-opened to help boost production of legal audio-video products. Officials confiscated 49 underground CD production lines during last year's national action to crack down on pornography and illegal audio-video products. Most of these were unearthed in the southern province of Guangdong. Data from the administration suggest that the public's awareness of copyright protection has been greatly enhanced by crackdowns on copyright infringements in recent years. The administration has received an increasing number of letters enquiring and complaining about copyright-related matters. Copyright trade has also advanced in the past year. Early this year, the administration organized a team of copyright trade companies to participate in a book fair in the United Kingdom. More than 40 agreements of intent were signed at the fair. Agreements on about 100 titles were signed at Sino-Japanese copyright trade negotiations in China. A healthy trade in audio-video products has been reported by the four national wholesalers for audio-video products in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou in Guangdong Province and Wuhan in Hubei Province. The Guangdong Audio-Video Emporium draws about 150 audio-video traders from all over the country. The wholesale price for some imported VCDs has dropped to around 25 yuan ($3). The Beijing wholesale centre has a collection of more than 20,000 audio-video titles and electronic publications. Date: 11/28/97 Author: Guo Nei Copyrightc by China Daily