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Legitimate uses for DeCSS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Tabercil writes "Interesting article at the Washington Post, which among other things points out that DeCSS does have valid uses, and that the industry's paranoia over DeCSS is overblown." A reasonable mainstream summary of all the DVD related legal hype. Interesting that the libdvdcss folks have never had a bump with the law, but instead DeCSS takes all the brunt even tho nobody uses it.

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  1. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only use for DeCSS is to pirate movies.
    Linux is not a proper OS, and no one would pay to play DVDs legaly anyways.

  2. self destruction by physman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why don't they produce self-destructing DVD's which destruct if somebody trys to decrypt it using DeCSS?

    --
    Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.
  3. Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I cant not understand why anyone would want to remove CSS, this must be fought against!

  4. Aidsniggers don't die, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the virus simply continues to spread, breeding faster than ever before, while the black hump of meat that was once the host rots away...