The Future End of Classic Computing

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Tue Apr 2 06:03:07 2002

And thusly Wayne M. Smith spake:
>
> >
> > DeCSS was a huge red herring. It was originally developed to _watch_
> > DVD movies, not _copy_ them.
>
> The reason why something is developed is really not that relevant to how it may ultimately be used -- we (the US) build weapons of
> mass destruction as a deterrent to keep the peace, but they're clearly capable of great evil. If you're referring to the that DeCSS
> was developed because there was no Linux DVD player, this story is apocryphal. DeCSS is a Windows-only executable file; there never
> was a Linux version, and the claim that it was developed as a Windows file because Linux didin't support the DVD file structure is
> nonsense. Moreover, if you need the windows OS to decrypt a DVD, then you already have a computer that can play the DVD.
>

No no no! The source for DeCSS was released and a Windows executable was made
from that.... T-shirts have even been made with the source code printed on
them.

Cheers,

Bryan
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 06:03:07 BST