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

[rcooley]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:06:31 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de> wrote:

> it should be easy to show that CSS encryption does not provide any 
> little help for copy protection. 

The DMCA makes no distinction.  Setting the "broadcast flag" (a single
bit in an HDTV broadcast) makes it illegial to record that video. 
That's right, modifying (or ignoring) a single bit is illegial,
because of the DMCA.