--- Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
I guess I should have been a bit clearer. The DeCSS
lawsuit was not about posting source code, but about
posting a Windows executable version which was known
as "DeCSS." As stated by 2600 Enterprises in its
post-hearing brief: "Jon Johansen testified that . .
. he wrote the program for Windows rather than for
Linux in order to test it properly because Linux did
not then support the UDF file system used on DVDs."
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Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 19:46:27 BST