Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:09:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs Message-ID: <199910271809.UAA01021@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Oct 26, 1999 11:17:36 pm"
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As Sean Eric Fagan wrote ... > >Given the recent posting of DVD movie decryption code (see Slashdot > >for details), I was wondering if there was interest for code that > >does CSS authentication for DVD-ROM drives. > > 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. Sounds like the NSA is in violation all the time? Insert half ;-) here.. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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