RE: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS with legitimate code.

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I don't recall the courts arriving at this authority
model.  I do remember us discussing it here, but not
as something that the courts has recogized as a legitimate
authority model.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS with legitimate code.
> 
> 
> But the court didn't rule that the function was the 
> thing....REmember the 
> courts tortured logic came back to the fact that the authority of the 
> copyright holder is granted to the purchaser of the DVD (note 
> I did not 
> write owner) through a licensed player not at point of sale. Using 
> technology and the DMCA, they successfully argued that they 
> can split the 
> traditional manner in which the authority of the copyright holder is 
> granted. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tom <tom@lemuria.org>
> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 05/23/2002 11:17 PM
> Please respond to dvd-discuss
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>         Subject:        Re: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS 
> with legitimate code.
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> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:54:13PM +0100, Mark Roberts wrote:
> > exists. Has it been pointed out to the court that every 
> legitimate DVD 
> > player in the world has code which performs exactly the 
> same function as 
> 
> > DeCSS  ?
> 
> that is not true. especially later versions of decss have a much more
> sophisticated key handling than the commercial dvd players.
> 
> 
> > Unless the court can say what DeCSS does that a legitimate 
> player does 
> > not, there is surely no way that it can be ruled illegal.
> 
> let's see:
> 
> - decss reads DVDs regardless of region coding
> - decss allows skipping of the FBI warning
> - decss reads DVDs regardless of key revocation (later versions)
> - decss doesn't even need a key (later versions)
> 
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