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Legitimate uses for DeCSS

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. Re:now if only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    OMG! YOU STOLE MY WORDS! Bastard! You know all text is Copyright 2003 Anonymous Coward. Now Slashdot is contributing to this infringement! I shall sue you all!

  2. Quiet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Interesting that the libdvdcss folks have never had a bump with the law...
    SHHHHHHH!

    Don't give them any ideas. ;-)
  3. Legit Uses? by darkpixel2k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Legitimate uses?

    Thank God! I've been looking for a few good excuses^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreasons to tell the MPAA when they come to my door.

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  4. Haha by DougMackensie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh sure. Whats next?
    Legitimate uses for Mp3s?

  5. Re:all ''copyright'' = greed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your right.

    They should use XSLT.

    regards,

    Chris

  6. Re:I wonder... by moonbender · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean they need a reason now? ;)

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  7. Re:yeah by cmeans · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yes, but to be honest, it's likely they would all be VB programmers :)

  8. Re:DeCSS Perl Code by NamShubCMX · · Score: 3, Funny

    someone reminds me why Ive never got into perl...? :)

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  9. Why throw it in the trash? by Art+Tatum · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should have sent the offending material back to the studio and requested a refund for the part you didn't want. :-)