DVD playback

[GyroTech]

Graham wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 15:09, Ben Novack wrote:
> 
> </getting on soapbox>
> 
> <snippage>
> 
> <getting off soapbox/>
> 
> Does anybody else share my point of view?

Absolutely and without doubt. As a UK resident, I am appalled at how the 
internet is still far too closely governed by the laws of just one 
country. The internet was made commercial and public a long time ago now 
and has seen many developments above and beyond (way beyond) what the 
Americans (well, technically the US gov.. since 'America' would include 
countries like Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, etc....) built with 
ARPAnet.

Even that aside, I remember there being a /. article once that the 
algorithm used in libdvdcss can actually be put through a mathematical 
formula to produce a primary number. So, under the laws of the DMCA, 
this primary number is actually illegal since it can be directly used to 
construct said 'encryption circumvention device'.
Which is just so very wrong IMHO.

And a thrid thing, with the DMCA laws and the hard-hitting RIAA and MPAA 
are doing now with trying to close down any bittorrent tracker or 
file-sharing software... It just boggles the mind when you draw 
parallels with their love of the right to bare arms, yety no-one would 
even think of trying to sue Smith & Wesson when someone gets killed with 
one of their guns. So why the heck is no-one batting an eye when these 
big 'companies' try to sue the living hell out of a software producer??

Gah, rant over :-)

Gyro