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. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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