Re: Reverse engineering

[Steve Gehlbach]

Steve Gehlbach wrote:
> ollie lho wrote:
> > Then why a DVD player with DeCSS not a "interoperatable" software ?
>
> The reason is that the US legislature (apparently)
> only intended the reverse engineering exception to apply to 
> interoperating with _software_, not movies.

I was working from memory here, and it has been pointed out to me that 
the final DeCSS decision does not state this.  I don't recall where I 
read this, maybe it was an interim opinion, maybe I have it completely 
wrong.  So to be very accurate, you should read the final DeCSS opinion 
yourself: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/dvd/dvdopinion.pdf.

-Steve