Hi, just wanted to pop in here and offer my opinion:
I think that a decrypted DVD occupies between 6 and 8 GB of hard drive space.
Since few of us have hardware capable of burning our own DVDs, and few of us
would want to buy and swap in a different hard drive each time we want to play
a pirated DVD, the practical limitations of pirating DVD suggest that DeCSS's
best application is simply to decode and play DVDs. The DVD CCA could make
this entire situation moot (and save hundreds of thousands in lawyer fees) by
releasing a free DVD player client/applet. I will probably not buy a DVD
player until something like that is available. I haven't been able to locate
an email address, but asking them to create a linux player might actually
work. Just because they employ hordes of lawyer scum doesn't preclude their
listening to POLITE reasonable requests.
-Jeff Mings
Edward Dekkers wrote:
> > 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?
>
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