Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:50:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:50:12 -0500 Received: from ns2.cypress.com ([157.95.67.5]:45030 "EHLO ns2.cypress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:49:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3C210B75.2000802@cypress.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:49:41 -0600 From: Thomas Dodd Organization: Cypress Semiconductor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011211 X-Accept-Language: en-US, en-GB, en, de-DE, de-AT, MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lgb@lgb.hu CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] DRM OS In-Reply-To: <20011218121034.B23308@vitelus.com> <20011218205632.GD28560@vega.digitel2002.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org G?bor L?n?rt wrote: > Ehh. What if I don't want (let's say) I can't pay money for a DVD player > software? Is there any legal DVD player sw for Linux? For win it's not Not the last I checked. > solution for me since win is not legal unless I buy it :) So I can't watch > my own DVD disk according the law? Imho it's against the constitution of Exactly. That's what DMCA says. It basicly nullifies all reasonable use rights in the U.S.A. > most countries: if I beleive that Open Source is the RIGHT solution (let'say > this is my religion, namely: I beleive in freedom so I can only use open > source softwares :), then I can't watch DVDs. So I'm under detrimental No one with the money (read millions of dollars) has channanged the Constitutionality of the DMCA yet. Even when it happens, what are the chances of the courts understanding the technical side? The politicians surly didn't. They beleived that it would stop mass copying and distribution, like in Malaysia with VCD, audio CDs, and software, When all it stops is individuals using the product they bought. A few years ago it was law that I could do what I wanted with a cable/satellite signal broadcast over me. So They encrypted the signals. I figured out how to decrypt that signal. The courts called that legal. So the broadcasters changed the keys more often until it was no longer worth the effort for me to "get it free" (it takes a few hours to find the new keys, then it takes a while to enter the new keys. So if the keys change twice a day I only get 1-2 hours of usefull viewing). The DMCA makes what had been legal, but dubious, use of the signal, illegal. I us gasoline to clean parts whe I work on old cars. Next they will tell me I cannot use the gasoline I buy for anything other than running a govt. approved engine and have top buy a seperate, approved cleaning agent to clean parts. -Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/