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Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]



On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:36:49PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:23:08PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > Looks like good news for having DVD playing in Debian someday...
> 
> This decision only removes the trade secret issue.  The DMCA issue
> remains.  
> 
> This is the relevant decision that is still keeping decss illegal:
> http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20011128_ny_appeal_decision.html

Note that we're not really interested in decss, and libdvdcss is the
important one, so however this plays out it needs to result in a
decision that means libdvdcss is okay too (getting off on a
technicality is no good).

I'm not sure that the trade secret issue was ever an issue for
libdvdcss.

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