DeCSS wasn't devised to explicitly violate copywrites. It was
devised specifically to get around the unacceptable situation of
NO linux support for DVD players. It allows you to use your
legally acquired DVD drive to actually watch DVD movies that
you legally rent or purchase. It is YOUR hardware and it is
YOUR DVD (unless you rented). With DeCSS you can watch it.
Just because it can allow for illegal copying doesn't make it
illegal software. What you use many things for can be legal
or illegal, that doesn't automatically make the tool you use
illegal too. If you have the hdd space to spare, yeah, you
can copy the DVD to your harddrive and then copy the resulting
mpegs to a CD if you have a CD-RW. If you have the money, you
can acquire copiers that can do it as well...and they too are legal.
I have a feeling that the fallout of all this will be
officially sanctioned binary-only drivers for DVD players.
DeCSS is a good thing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Dekkers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 5:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT] DVD reading (was Re: Misc hardware questions
> yes, they can, since decss has *nothing* to do with copying dvds, it
> has to do with *playing* dvds. nothing more.
>
> check out opendvd.org for more info.
????
OK, now I'm lost. With DeCSS I can decrypt an entire movie to my hard disk,
then watch it. OK, but what is to stop me from writing it back to another
removable or non-removable media and watching it from there?
Does this NOT constitute copying?
What do you mean?
Edward Dekkers (Director)
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