yeah right... easy way to get mod up, imagine a conspiracy theory. Now if you had a look to TFA or even used google, you would know that:
the rulling applies to all DVDs, it nevers says explicitly that american movies have to be unprotected. And yes, in France we actually make some DVDs
Mulholland Drive was actually produced partly by a french company (http://www.mulholland-drive.net/load.htm?threads/ film.htm/), le studio canal, which now has to remove protection from all its dvds. This is really american imperialism.
if you want to bash the french, try at least to dig a bit.
"A few hours ago (1 AM US/Eastern time, July 1) we downloaded ircii-pana-1.0c19.tar.gz from ftp.bitchx.com (216.165.191.5) and reviewed the configure script before running it"
So the backdoor was discovered through auditing of the source code. Of course that doesn't mean that OSS are less flawed than closed source soft, it just shows that having the source code helps finding potential problems before you run into troubles.
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- the rulling applies to all DVDs, it nevers says explicitly that american movies have to be unprotected. And yes, in France we actually make some DVDs
- Mulholland Drive was actually produced partly by a french company (http://www.mulholland-drive.net/load.htm?threads
/ film.htm/), le studio canal, which now has to remove protection from all its dvds. This is really american imperialism.
if you want to bash the french, try at least to dig a bit.According to this blog http://maitre.eolas.free.fr/journal/index.php?2005 /03/08/87-guillermito-condamne-mais-tres-legeremen t/ (oh my god, it's in french!), he was convicted of counterfeiting, i.e using a pirated version of Viguard. The judge said that, in order to be legal in France, reverse engineering should be performed on legaly obtained software.
If they wanted someone famous as a witness, why didn't they choose Al Gore? After all, he is the man behind the internet.
According to the website :
"A few hours ago (1 AM US/Eastern time, July 1) we downloaded ircii-pana-1.0c19.tar.gz from ftp.bitchx.com (216.165.191.5) and reviewed the configure script before running it"
So the backdoor was discovered through auditing of the source code. Of course that doesn't mean that OSS are less flawed than closed source soft, it just shows that having the source code helps finding potential problems before you run into troubles.