xcdroast issue

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:24 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 13:03 +1000, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> 
> > Checkout the XCDRoast Website.. http://www.xcdroast.org/, that will help with
> > the ProDVD file, and the key you need to use it.. If your only wanting to burn
> > CD-/+R's then you don't need it.. But if you need to burn DVD+/-R's you will
> > need this file.
> 
> Just for ducks, I understand from my visit to the above site that the
> 'key' waves a chicken foot and rattles an dried gourd to unlock some
> form of Dvd voodoo, but why is it needed at all? Is there some
> proprietary issue with burning a Dvd? Is nothing sacred? It's time to
> make some sort of public snide remark concerning some patent attorneys,
> I hope they... <deleted in case something I write trips the CRM114
> discriminator and a klaxon horn at the NSA goes off while searchlights
> start to sweep the compound, causing the national guard at Greensboro to
> be rousted out of bed to come kick my door in, at this hour of the
> night>

You may find this article interesting:
http://lwn.net/Articles/97469/

Paul.