From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 27 6:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D208C14BF7 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 06:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gadde@cs.duke.edu) Received: from timber.cs.duke.edu (timber.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.46]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA20109 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (gadde@localhost) by timber.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA28934 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:35:15 -0400 From: Syam Gadde To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs Message-ID: <19991027093515.A28928@timber.cs.duke.edu> References: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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