> It is *probably* legal in the USA for Debian to distribute it.  However,
> no one wants to find out the hard way that I am wrong about that, and in
> any case it's easy to get it elsewhere.
>

> Actually, probably NOT legal to distribute in the U.S., according to the
> DMCA.  See

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

> Any software or hardware meant to bypass or disable copyright protection is
> illegal in the U.S.

I have read the DMCA.  I have also read many of the court rulings
pertaining to it and to DVDCSS.  The DMCA anti-circumvention provisions
are not nearly as broad as they are generally believed to be.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA


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