An intereseting aspect of DeCSS has gone unnoticed so far: The DeCSS is a player ONLY for LINUX systems. Since NONE of the companies so far have come out with a player for LINUX, DeCSS has no copyright to violate! Undoubtedly, there will be LINUX specific code in there which will not be compatible with the rest of the OSes - the algorithm may be generic, but the final executable or LINUX source has to be LINUX specific. Thus in the absence of any similar product in LINUX, DeCSS should be given a copyright for having such a system under LINUX
No not wiggling - go here to find out :
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_2248 13.html
And here for more:
(as in aleclee article) :
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/ 08/27/stifgnrus01003.html
I do not know why they call it "squall" instead of "shkval" though - maybe an incompetent translator perhaps ?:-)
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An intereseting aspect of DeCSS has gone unnoticed so far: The DeCSS is a player ONLY for LINUX systems. Since NONE of the companies so far have come out with a player for LINUX, DeCSS has no copyright to violate! Undoubtedly, there will be LINUX specific code in there which will not be compatible with the rest of the OSes - the algorithm may be generic, but the final executable or LINUX source has to be LINUX specific. Thus in the absence of any similar product in LINUX, DeCSS should be given a copyright for having such a system under LINUX
No not wiggling - go here to find out : http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_2248 13.html
And here for more:
(as in aleclee article) :
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/ 08/27/stifgnrus01003.html
I do not know why they call it "squall" instead of "shkval" though - maybe an incompetent translator perhaps ? :-)