On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:02, Adrian Midgley, in DVD Region 2, wrote: > "Jon Lech Johansen has been acquitted in Oslo of all charges relating to > the DeCSS software DVD player he wrote 3 years ago for Linux... ...snip... > I'd say that there has been potential for some similar events to occur > relating to medical record formats, so this is heartening. > I think I'll watch a DVD this evening.
You can watch one of my CSS-encrypted Region 4 DVDs if you like. (Note that I am not offering to copy it for you, thus infringing copyright, just lend you the original disc I bought). Without DeCSS, it would be useless to you since all the commercial DVD players in Europe and Japan only play Region 2 discs, don't they? There is an exhaustive discussion of the legal issues behind this case at http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dvd-discuss-faq.html Tim C
