[6311] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: DeCSS Court Hearing Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Hirschfeld)
Mon Jan 3 21:32:58 2000
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 22:57:30 +0100 (MET)
Message-Id: <UTC200001032157.WAA31280.ray@prauw.cwi.nl>
From: Ray Hirschfeld <R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl>
To: andreas@andreas.org
Cc: shamrock@cypherpunks.to, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM, cryptography@c2.net,
gnu@toad.com
In-reply-to: <m3wvptuosx.fsf@soma.andreas.org> (message from Andreas Bogk on
01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500)
Reply-To: ray@unipay.nl
> From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
> Date: 01 Jan 2000 22:37:18 -0500
> Is it just me, or did the DVDCCA not exist when DeCSS was released?
> I've never heard of them, and when I tried to obtain a CSS license,
> the information I had was that CSS is licensed by some japanese
> company (which by the way didn't bother to respond to my request to
> license CSS for the purpose of building a Linux DVD player. Mistake.).
I think you're right. According to their website, they started
licensing CSS on December 15. See http://dvdcca.org/dvdcca/css.html.
