[MPlayer-users] Can mplayer support HD-DVD?

[RC]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:57:11 +0100
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:

> > > Then again, libdvdcss is illegal in the US, too.
> > 
> > Actually, it isn't.
> 
> Do you have some evidence beside your word?

H.R.2281
Sec. 1201

       `(f) REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of
subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to
use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure
that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program
for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the
program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an
independently created computer program with other programs, and that
have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the
circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and
analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.

      `(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b),
a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a
technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a
technological measure, in order to enable the identification and
analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling
interoperability of an independently created computer program with other
programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability,
to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this
title.