Organizations have a right to protect their intellectual property (like it, or not). But they have no right to control the market in such a way that we have no alternative other than their chosen medium. And the idea that they can remotely monitor the use of a product that I paid for is assinine. If I want to by a 45" digital monitor to use as an aquarium, I can. If I want a 45" digital monitor exclusively for unencrypted use, I had better be able to get one. As long as I can, and as long as most people do, unencrypted content will have to be made available or it simply won't sell.
Well, you won't HAVE to buy these screens, but strangely enough, the new CCS-2 DVD players will only work with these screens. And for some reason, there won't be much content released on the old CSS-1 format.
Uh, because the stream is encrypted by a random session key from the screen.
Each time a videosource starts talking to a screen, the screen generates some random bits and the videousource must use these in the encryptionkey, or the screen will not display.
The judge didn't say anything about playing a DVD, i.e. USING decss.
The judge found that the distribution of deccs MAY cause undebuggerable harm to the plaintiff, and ruled in favour of the plaintiff. Defendants are now restrained from further DISTRIBUTING decss.
you can still play your DVD's on linux, as long as you don't broadcast the fact on slashdot, because, frankly, who is to know you're using decss?
Congress... shall pass no law that is unenforceable, if only for the reason not to look like s****d b*****s.
There are some problems inherent to mirroring a site without the site owner's consent. If you have an IP address (or range) of your own, it will get blacklisted. If you have a dialin account, they'll blacklist your ISP ip addresses until they make you desist.
Even if you have enough IP adresses to spread the load, you stil have to clean up the url's, reverse engineer the perl cgi scripts, replicate the article database (because if you don't, either your search won't work, or you'll have to query the original slashdot database, and they will notice the load from your system) and a lot more.
Slashdot Mirror
so i guess we will have to change extensions from .mp3 to .jpg ?
If you spliced the decss sourcecode in your own genes, could the MPAA prevent you from breeding?
what can you do with an email, legally?
It's just a sequence of bytes anybode could have made, unless you signed it with a known key.
Well, you won't HAVE to buy these screens, but strangely enough, the new CCS-2 DVD players will only work with these screens. And for some reason, there won't be much content released on the old CSS-1 format.
Each time a videosource starts talking to a screen, the screen generates some random bits and the videousource must use these in the encryptionkey, or the screen will not display.
The judge didn't say anything about playing a DVD, i.e. USING decss.
The judge found that the distribution of deccs MAY cause undebuggerable harm to the plaintiff, and ruled in favour of the plaintiff. Defendants are now restrained from further DISTRIBUTING decss.
you can still play your DVD's on linux, as long as you don't broadcast the fact on slashdot, because, frankly, who is to know you're using decss?
Congress... shall pass no law that is unenforceable, if only for the reason not to look like s****d b*****s.
Sorry I was a bit terse there. What I meant was:
wouldn't it be better if the title of the slashdot article woul read
Alleged DECCS author arrested
?
the post should read "alleged author", should it not?
#include "sig.h"
There are some problems inherent to mirroring a site without the site owner's consent. If you have an IP address (or range) of your own, it will get blacklisted. If you have a dialin account, they'll blacklist your ISP ip addresses until they make you desist.
Even if you have enough IP adresses to spread the load, you stil have to clean up the url's, reverse engineer the perl cgi scripts, replicate the article database (because if you don't, either your search won't work, or you'll have to query the original slashdot database, and they will notice the load from your system) and a lot more.
All in all, easier said than done.
Candians are bad... what?