Quoting Sean Eric Fagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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.
The "technology" would refer to the user-level programs in this case.
It should be made clear, I suppose, that any kernel support should
implement the packet commands in an (open?) spec; to wit, Windows also
has "technology which can be used to bypass encryption of digital
works"... a device driver.
-syam
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