[6302] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Lemon)
Mon Jan 3 12:36:14 2000
Message-Id: <200001031724.MAA03115@grosse.manhattan.fugue.com>
To: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>,
"cypherpunks@Algebra. COM" <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>,
"Cryptography@C2. Net" <cryptography@c2.net>,
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
of "01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 EST." <m3wvptuosx.fsf@soma.andreas.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:24:10 -0500
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@isc.org>
> The only reason that justifies the existence of the player keys in the
> CSS scheme is control of the DVD consortium over the licensees: they
> can always threaten to revoke the player key of a given licensee if
> that licensee doesn't play by the rules (Macrovision, Region Codes,
> etc.).
>
> Now that the scheme has been published and broken, it's possible for
> anybody (and that distinctly includes the Linux folks) to build a DVD
> player. *That's* what they were afraid of. Piracy has been possible
> before, and they didn't care.
This is a _really_ good point. It hadn't occurred to me before that a
snapshot of a DVD would work just as well as the original, given a
player with the appropriate key. I'm me-tooing this because I think
the point you've made here deserves to have been at the top of your
article, not somewhere in the middle! :')
_MelloN_
