Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:15 -0400 From: Syam Gadde <gadde@cs.duke.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs Message-ID: <19991027093515.A28928@timber.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> References: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com>
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Quoting Sean Eric Fagan (sef@kithrup.com): > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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