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...ound when the 'media laws' were passed. So how could there have been any kind of fair representation? Congress passed the DMCA much much too quickly, and we are seeing the fallout of this premature and awful law now. > I will say something is really whacked with the DMCA though in the DeCSS > case.. There is a clause in the DMCA that gives expressed -permission- to > reverse engineer and then reinvent software if the purpose is to provide > support for some media or device on a platform that currently lacks that > support. I don't see how, having demonstrated tha...

Hi, I tried sending this to acss at openssh.org and acss at openbsd.org but I got "Returned mail: no such user" on both accounts. So I am sending here in hopes of an answer. >> Hi, >> Last night I was searching for ways to "decss" and when I was doing >> so I came across acss.c and acss.h in the openssh cvs tree. I read >> the man page for acss(3) and I am still not 100% clear on what acss >> does in ssh. Is it posable to stream an dvd with ssh and have the >> client decrypt it? Or what is...

...that and being prepared to actually defend it; It's quite another to yell at the top of your lungs and then not have a plan besides "we have faith that our voice, no matter how small or underfunded, will be heard." I will say something is really whacked with the DMCA though in the DeCSS case.. There is a clause in the DMCA that gives expressed -permission- to reverse engineer and then reinvent software if the purpose is to provide support for some media or device on a platform that currently lacks that support. I don't see how, having demonstrated that clause, the MPAA h...

> performances. That's ~125,000 performances a year, which equates to about > $180,000. > > Significantly higher than the Frauhofer license, unless you generate > $9Mil/yr or more in revenue from your stream. The rates are in arbitration, and I doubt they will come out anywhere near that amount. It just isn't feasible, even for large companies. Reember, tradidional

Looks like the mpeg gestapo are frantically at work cracking down on mpeg projects. Several important projects (tsunami mpeg, gogo, faac, etc) were shut down by the jack booted patent nazis. Since FhG, mpegla, etc plan to start charging royalties on everything even remotely mpeg-related very soon, I expect a lot of interest is going to shift to Vorbis. And soon thereafter, I expect FhG to attack

...ng should be legal WITHOUT the necessity of an app to port. However, this notion still needs to be more fully explored via additional cases before its full scope can be determined. Presently, the scope appears to be very restricted: The article points out that the DeCSS decision would probably not be affected in any way. In the current environment, this is probably true. But what if you can convince the courts to view DVD "content" as a "program"! While this may seem obviously true to technical folks, especially thos...

...ng should be legal WITHOUT the necessity of an app to port. However, this notion still needs to be more fully explored via additional cases before its full scope can be determined. Presently, the scope appears to be very restricted: The article points out that the DeCSS decision would probably not be affected in any way. In the current environment, this is probably true. But what if you can convince the courts to view DVD "content" as a "program"! While this may seem obviously true to technical folks, especially thos...