Re: Bug#270974: ITP: linux-xbox -- Xbox support in Linux
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 11:29 am, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Cromwell is a replacement for the Xbox BIOS. It is dessigned with the
> > sole purpose of booting Linux and uncapable of doing anything else. In
> > particular, it has no clue about running XBE executables in which Xbox
> > games are shipped, and it doesn't implement any part of the Xbox BIOS
> > API, which games use.
>
> My understanding, though, is that it doesn't matter WHY you're circumventing
> the controls that stop you from booting anything else on the XBox; just that
> you are circumventing them.
You're confusing things. Please get an idea of the controls you're referring
to before arguing about them. There's plenty of documentation in
http://xbox-linux.sf.net/. Speaking without knowledge just results in
spreading FUD which isn't good for anyone.
The controls that (attempt to) "stop you from booting anything else" are not
the same controls that protect from copyright infringement. The former are
not circumvented by anything we provide in Debian. The latter are in the Xbox
OS which we don't even use.
> An unlicensed DVD player without a "rip" or
> "copy" option is still illegal here because it has to bypass the
> market-protection mechanisms of the MPAA, even though it can't actually be
> used for copyright infringement.
The DVD player was in the Xbox OS which we don't use. Like every legacy DVD
player, it implements CSS protection. And like every legacy DVD player, it's
propietary software and we have nothing to do with it.
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