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Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: KernelPanic on 26 August 2002, 20:53

Title: Old but interesting
Post by: KernelPanic on 26 August 2002, 20:53

WHAT MAY BECOME one of the most important rulings in the history of the Internet was handed down late Thursday by a U.S. federal judge who issued a permanent injunction barring Web sites from linking to others that contain illegal code, such as De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) in some instances.

Read On (http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/08/17/000817hndvd.xml?0818frap)

Title: Old but interesting
Post by: Stryker on 26 August 2002, 21:05

In that example of MPAA dvd encryption...

How would one go about getting the code then? They can't restrict it from everyone, there would be no new dvd players, software or hardware, as we wouldn't have the means to decrypt it. Wouldn't the technique be in the source code of ogle or xine? they have to decrypt it to play it obviously, and it's open source. wouldn't that be the same thing?

Title: Old but interesting
Post by: KernelPanic on 26 August 2002, 21:38

'respectable' companies have to buy licences to the decription.

Title: Old but interesting
Post by: Stryker on 27 August 2002, 03:30

But if it's in open source programs, then anyone could get it.

Title: Old but interesting
Post by: Calum on 4 September 2002, 04:24

but it's not in the code.

you need to download the DeCSS code seperately and it is not legal to do so. it is accepted by the makers of the open source dvd players that you will do this, otherwise you could not play dvds which were encrypted in this way.