On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Nina Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have this crazy idea for delivering a blow against synch licensing. > The article has a lot of hypertext, so it's best to read at > http://blog.ninapaley.com/2008/09/05/the-bright-side-of-the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow/ > This idea will need a lot of help and collaboration to work, but if it does, > it has a lot of potential. > Thoughts? Ideas? Help?
The main issue with making an open source player to synchronize audio and video from different sources is that most legally-acquired audio and video sources have DRM. There is no technical barrier to breaking these DRM schemes (pretty much every scheme out there has been broken), but the laws of the United States and many other countries make it illegal to create software to break DRM and to distribute software that breaks DRM. So it's a nice idea, but until we have more audio and video sources legally available in DRM-free formats, there is not a lot of incentive to create such a program. As an open source developer, this hurts me deeply, but there's not much I can do about it until governments stop providing legal protection for DRM. Denver _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
