On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 18:54 +0100, Alberto Botti wrote: > Il giorno mar, 31/01/2006 alle 10.04 -0800, Kevin Cosgrove ha scritto: > > Plextors are very nice. I have one of their CDRW units. > > I own one of their DVD recorders, but I'm not happy to see things like > this (from http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~noe/Plextor/): > > Plextor does obviously not tolerate that anyone can use the PX-755 drive > on Linux, or that anyone uses alternative scanning applications. Plextor > has introduced "protected commands" into this drive. Commands like > enabling/disabling Bitsetting, GigaREC or SilentMode, as well as all > quality check commands, now require to retrieve a code and send another > one that is calculated from the received one back to the drive, > otherwise those commands will be rejected by the drive. > > > It even seems like Plextor has tried to sue a developer who wrote a > Linux application to use some advanced features of their drives (thread > on http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=138061). > > Wow, this is F**KED UP - so you'd need to violate the DMCA to write a driver. What revenue stream are they trying to protect - do they charge extra for a fully functional driver and/or burning software? This is one of the worst things I've seen a vendor try to pull. I'm never buying another Plextor. Lee
