Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report

[Ray Hirschfeld]

> From: Andreas Bogk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500

> Is it just me, or did the DVDCCA not exist when DeCSS was released?
> I've never heard of them, and when I tried to obtain a CSS license,
> the information I had was that CSS is licensed by some japanese
> company (which by the way didn't bother to respond to my request to
> license CSS for the purpose of building a Linux DVD player. Mistake.).

I think you're right.  According to their website, they started
licensing CSS on December 15.  See http://dvdcca.org/dvdcca/css.html.