From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 27 11:21:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574B114C8E for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA01700 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:12:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01021; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:09:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910271809.UAA01021@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: CSS authentication for DVD-ROMs In-Reply-To: <199910270617.XAA15707@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Oct 26, 1999 11:17:36 pm" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:09:37 +0200 (CEST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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