From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 21 19:27:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE7D37B57F for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-89.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.89]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA13475 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:23:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38B20317.8C63436C@bellatlantic.net> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:31:35 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DeCSS References: <20000221020555.D5BD51CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you > see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) > > http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ > > Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. I can't help keeping wondering if this MAA is missing the point completely: why would someone need the decryption to make a _copy_ ? A copy is a copy and it appears to me that the encrypted bits written on the disk surface could be copied just exactly as well as the decrypted bits. Probably the real reason they start this activity is because otherwise they would lose some kind of royalties from the DVD-players manufacturers. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message