On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Patrick M. May wrote:
> > ????
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> Well, your high upstanding moral character. :-)
>
> And, a little thing called economics. At the current stage of the game, I
> don't think there is any removable media, with the exception of say tape,
> with the capacity of a dual layer DVD. You could right it to HD, but that
> would cost you at least $100 for a cheap drive (probably more) of the size
> required.
>
> > Does this NOT constitute copying?
>
> Sure it is copying. Is it not also copying when you install software? I
careful. decss has nothing to do with copying. i think we should be
very cautious in describing what decss really is, which is a *player*.
just being pedantic.
rday
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