At 3/15/2003 9:15:00 AM, you wrote:

no, the dvd player had a modem on the back. so when you played the dvd it would call the server, charge your credit card, then get the key from the server to play the dvd

heh, last i heard those "dvds" had triple 128bit DES encoding on them and NO-ONE has been able to break/play em yet. see if anyone else has been able to play them instead of throwing it on mplayer. they are geniuses not magicians. the best i could find is: http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/jump/0,24331,3368594,00.html http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/freedivx.html