Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
>
> >Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot
> >for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that
> >does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives.
>
> I looked at the slashdot posts, and was surprised (I guess) to see that nobody
> seems to know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Part of which makes
> it a copyright violation (at $2500/copy distributed) to "manufacture or
> distribute technology" which can be used to bypass encryption of digital
> works. E.g., DVDs.
>
> I'm reasonably sure that parts of this will be struck down for constitutional
> reasons, but until it is... it's a very risky thing to do.
Not every country has the same stupid "copyright" laws as the US.
Who cares anyway that they think they can rule the world?
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