Re: OT: Palladium (Was Re: eric raymond)
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:25:28AM +0200, Niels Möller (nisse@lysator.liu.se) wrote:
> What worries me more is the laws backing it up (the DMCA, and the
> corresponding laws being introduced in Europe. And then the software
> patents disaster. Etc. It's really depressing). I guess mplayer is
> illegal in the US (as it ships with the decss code), and if/when
> DMCA-like laws are enforced in Europe things aren't looking good.
mplayer uses the CSS code from libdvdcss, and there's nothing illegal
about libdvdcss itself in either Europe or the US. Whether or not
mplayer and other applications which use libdvdcss are considered
circumvention devices depends on what they do with the decrypted data.
Denmark is one of of the three countries which has already implemented
the EUCD, and the Danish Ministry of Culture has a guideline for their
implementation:
http://www.kum.dk/sw5335.asp
Legal:
* Circumvention for playback
* Development and distribution of playback software which circumvents
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/EUCD-Status
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