Dude you said I can copy the files to my desktop, which would be like copying (encrypted) files out of an encrypted ZIP file without the password. Now you're saying I can duplicate the disc-image, which presumably is like copying an encrypted ZIP file to a new location. I'm still not convinced, so I tried BlindWrite, and then CloneCD. That did not work either. I tried DiscDump... nup. In the end I was forced to use DVD Decrypter.... which shouldn't count since it is a decryption program, however I turned off CSS decryption and all other modification methods. So I duplicated the disc, and then decrypted the files... which worked.

However this is a long way short of what you originally claimed, which was that you could copy the files straight off the disc in their encrypted form onto your desktop. For a start, I HAD to use a program designed to cope with CSS in the first place to duplicate the disc. There was no way to do without 3rd party software - that is to say WindowsXP itself did not have the native ability to copy the files, which is what you originally implied.