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Re: About MPEG2 and DVDs



On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:53:45PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
>  - implement a brute force algorithm that has been found and which
>   lets you crack the CSS key of a single disk in a few seconds. I think
>   this one would be legal everywhere, but not sure.

Of course it wouldn't be legal.  Not in the United MPAA States of America.

Rant aside, I get the feeling that the trial that begins tomorrow in the
Southern District of New York will play a not insignificant part in
determining the answer to this question, as far as the US is concerned.

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