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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:41:58 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        kris@hub.freebsd.org (Kris Kennaway), sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DeCSS
Message-ID:  <200003040841.JAA43078@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200003040806.BAA32550@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Mar 4, 2000 01:06:04 am"

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It seems Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003032303040.36334-100000@hub.freebsd.org> Kris Kennaway writes:
> : You know, I half want to add a note in the release notes that "FreeBSD 4.0
> : now ships with DeCSS included", but that might be a bit political :-)
> 
> It would be political.  All things are.
> 
> What could they do to us?  Haul us into court?  In which case our
> legal representative will say "Your honor, these clowns didn't do due
> diligence in their complaint, we have no clue why we're here.  The
> DeCSS in our produce removes Cascading Style Sheets.  Nothing at all
> to do with DVDs at all.  Please dismiss the case and award us our
> court costs, plus $10M punitive damages to deter such egregious
> behavior in the future.  Thank you."

He, I have the bits ported here since november'99, I'll gladly
offer them for inclusion on the CD's :)

-Søren


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