From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jan 22 9: 0:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D07737B69D for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p208.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.208]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA93438; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:00:29 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00774; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:16:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:16:16 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD playback In-Reply-To: <200101210556.f0L5u1F73910@medusa.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Nick Sayer wrote: > I have not read the DMCA. I hope it dies in the courts. Fair use would suggest > that it would be legal to set up a decrypting service for people's DVDs. Well, this all is more like wind west than about fairness. We live in a global village that gets smaller every day and the Hollywood industry managed with the help of dont know to establish a region system, as they have it with cinema. In Monaco, Reading film (?), there are some pages about the history of Hollywood and courts. There were some antitrust cases in 1946. Precedences ? H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message