nonewmsgs
June 7th, 2007, 03:47 AM
oh yes content scrambling system the power to control the universe and how you watch your dvds.
i was in college when DeCSS came out. i still remember the free speech blue ribbons and frivilous lawsuits, napster betas and the digital milenium copywrite act. DeCSS was on tshirts and everywhere anyone would want to go. inexpensive dvd recorders didnt exist and the expensive ones could copy bit for bit anyway. the big argument was linux users should have the right to watch a dvd movie they legally own.
about a week ago or so i was looking at a site that sold all those fancy restricted codecs. is the dvd playback codec simply that little C program and that is what the company wants a license on? and i wondered if i legally have that license. i have gotten OEM dics with nero and powerdvd from buying hardware so dont i actually own the usage of that codec for each disc i have?
just wondering...
i was in college when DeCSS came out. i still remember the free speech blue ribbons and frivilous lawsuits, napster betas and the digital milenium copywrite act. DeCSS was on tshirts and everywhere anyone would want to go. inexpensive dvd recorders didnt exist and the expensive ones could copy bit for bit anyway. the big argument was linux users should have the right to watch a dvd movie they legally own.
about a week ago or so i was looking at a site that sold all those fancy restricted codecs. is the dvd playback codec simply that little C program and that is what the company wants a license on? and i wondered if i legally have that license. i have gotten OEM dics with nero and powerdvd from buying hardware so dont i actually own the usage of that codec for each disc i have?
just wondering...