[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Apr 21 01:04:57 CEST 2004


D Richard Felker III writes:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:51:28PM +0200, VMiklos wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > Watching DVDs under Linux has IMHO never been illegal.
> > 
> > I don't know, but...
> > 
> > from http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/eMoviX/countries/en/main.html
> > 
> > "    *  IMPORTANT DVD NEWS *** Because of the DeCSS legal problems, this
> > eMoviX version cannot read encrypted DVDs unless you add by your own the
> > libdvdcss.so library to the distro.
> 
> libdvdcss has nothing to do with decss. decss contains warezed keys
> from a reverse engineered player. libdvdcss doesn't include any keys;
> it just breaks the (very weak) crypto itself.
> 
> As far as I know, no court has ever made a ruling against libdvdcss.

The question is whether it falls under the DMCA and similar laws that
forbid copy protection (which CSS has been argued to be in court).

Diego




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