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Clarification of the issues.
The website http://opendvd.org/myths.php3 explains what this is about.
CSS is not to prevent copying. Anyone can copy the one disk to another disk.
It is to control access, to prevent small companies and ordinary people
from making video disks, from making video disk players, and to prevent
users from being able to edit movies, perhaps by extracting scenes (the
dirty bits).
In short, to keep the movies in the hands of the big boys.
DeCSS was primarily created and used to produce unauthorized DVD players,
in particular to allow DVD disks to be played on linux computers. This was
its original use, and remains its primary use.
Some of these unauthorized DVD players now do things like lossy
compression, to allow a DVD movie to fit on a CD, facilitating piracy.
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James A. Donald
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