Reverse engineering
Steve Gehlbach
steve at nexpath.com
Wed May 21 12:29:00 CEST 2003
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
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