Re: [Boston.pm] Re: Obfuscated Perl Scripot to Decrypt CSS

[Mark J. Dulcey]

Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:

> DeCSS is a program with no other purpose on the planet than to steal and
> pirate someone elses property. This is not covered by free speech, rather
> some penal code somewhere that I'm sure I'd get bored reading.

This isn't true. DeCSS (either the original, or one of the other 
programs that does the same thing) is an essential part of any 
program that will play DVDs. Playing a DVD that you own can 
hardly be characterized as stealing someone else's property.

  A CSS descrambling program (css_descramble.c, a later, more 
efficient program, not the orignal DeCSS code) is being used in 
the Linux Video project (http://www.linuxvideo.org), which is 
developing an open source DVD player.