RE: [dvd-discuss] Salon Artice on DVD Commentary

["Steve Hosgood" <steve(at)caederus.com>]

> > From: Ernest Miller [mailto:ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu]
> > 
> > http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/09/25/dvd_comment
> > ary/index.html
> > 
> Just a short step from "legitimate" commentary
> to MST3K-style ... and then what have you got?
> Essentially the same thing we've been discussing
> about inserting third-party material directly
> into the flick ...
> 

Worth noting that this forum has dealt with this subject matter before,
and well predating the June 2001 date mentioned in the Salon article too!

Check out http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archive/dvd-discuss/msg12105.html
et al...

OK, so that thread was more concerned with the technicalities, but I think
the legal aspects were mentioned at least a few times. Mostly though to
do with using the "obvious legality" of doing your own DVD commentaries
to try and show legitimate uses for linux DVD players employing non-DVDCCA
authorised decryption algorithms.

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