From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 21 19:34:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E665B37B589 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:33:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3E8CF1C57; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:33:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:33:59 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Sergey Babkin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DeCSS Message-ID: <20000221223359.K92177@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000221020555.D5BD51CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <38B20317.8C63436C@bellatlantic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38B20317.8C63436C@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:31:35PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:31:35PM -0500, Sergey Babkin 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. You're one of those people who follows instructions, are you? I'll restate what Peter said. > > Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message