Originally Posted by
aidanjt
If you do a bit for bit copy of a disc you're not by-passing the protection at all, you're ignoring it entirely, it would be like taking a book that's complete gibberish and photocopying it, the output is still the exact same gibberish, but that gibberish is still understandable by DVD players as CSS protected content (because no circumventions were used).
Which ultimately makes digital content protection laws anti-consumer, and even worse, anti-competitive. Real pirates don't use DeCSS/DVDShrink and a load of 4.5GB DVD+/-R's, they use 1:1 replication systems.