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> The "foot in the door" came from a seemingly obscure capability of the Dreamcast to boot not from a GD-ROM but from a CD-ROM. Originally intended to add multimedia functions to music CDs, the functionality called "MIL-CD" was never used much, accounting for a mere seven karaoke applications.

Isn't the first sentence of the "SECOND PROTECTION LEVEL" section exactly what you described?

Maybe I'm confused (regarding your first paragraph), isn't the section "Second protection level: Scrambler" about just that?

Did you actually read the blog post?

Also, i'm pretty sure that such "special dvd drive" you're mentioning didn't exist back in 1999 as I remember using my Dreamcast as a reading device connected to my PC.

Seems 100% accurate to me.

down-voted for not reading the article and still thinking you are entitled to snark