[forwarded submission from a non-member address -- rjk]
From: "Michel Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:01:42 -0400
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Obfuscated Perl Script to Decrypt CSS
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wait until the feds start knocking on damian's door.
Luckily he's Australian. :)
In the last issue of the Perl Journal, Omri Schwartz discussed using
Parse::RecDescent to turn the DeCSS C code into an English representation. I
don't believe he's written the reverse of that yet. But, since the courts
stated that the difference between a programming language and English was
that the former could be read by a computer. If one wrote a subset of
English->C compiler, English would then be banned as a language with which
to distribute DeCSS, because a computer could parse, compile, and run it. :)
Then a lawyer might have a strong case against then by saying it's
restricting our free speech (and this time it would be real speech, not
programming.) Just food for thought. :)
Mike Lambert
