[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:40:11 +0200
Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:

> > 1) Firstly, is there any way such a patch could be accepted being that
> > it will implement AACS (and eventually BD+) decrypting?
> 
> Why shouldn't it?
> From the legal situation, i dont see a problem there.
> Although copy protection systems are protected by law (thanks to GATT),
> the definition of what a copy protection system is, is very narrow
> (e.g. CSS does not constitute as a copy protection system and thus
> is not protected, not to mention that it actually violates local
> copyright law) and it's not clear to me whether AACS can be considered
> a copy protection system. Additionaly, MPlayer/MEncoder are player/encoder
> applications, whos foremost goal are to allow people to watch
> the media they aquired and not a copy protection circumvention tool.
> Hence we get quite some legal slack here.

addendum: It would be possible that we apply to the curt here for clarification
on this matter with moderate costs (last quote i got was  10k-30k EUR).
This would give us the advantage of getting a list of what we are allowed
to do and what not, hence giving us protection against any big evil company
who'd want to sue us. As a side effect, it might be possible that breaking
AACS would become legal here :-)

			Attila Kinali

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