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RE: [dvd-discuss] AVRA sues Warner Home Video
- To: "'dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu'" <dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] AVRA sues Warner Home Video
- From: "Ballowe, Charles" <CBallowe(at)usg.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:57:26 -0600
- Reply-To: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Sender: owner-dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ole Craig [mailto:olc@cs.umass.edu]
>
> If that were true then DeCSS should have fallen squarely
> within the interoperability exception.
>
Which I have argued to people from the beginning - wonder how the
courts would take it. MPEG is just a program that when run on
appropriate hardware produces a data stream that can be
interpreted as video. If it directs hardware to do something,
it's software. Since there are hardware MPEG chips...
Software DVD players under this are just emulators.
-charlie