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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:33:59 -0500
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
To:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DeCSS
Message-ID:  <20000221223359.K92177@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <38B20317.8C63436C@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:31:35PM -0500
References:  <20000221020555.D5BD51CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <38B20317.8C63436C@bellatlantic.net>

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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.

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