From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 27 4:52:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BDA615163 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 04:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 81322 invoked from network); 27 Oct 1999 11:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([195.134.128.41]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Oct 1999 11:51:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3816E73E.9C36D9C2@pipeline.ch> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:51:26 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs References: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Not every country has the same stupid "copyright" laws as the US. Who cares anyway that they think they can rule the world? -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message