Re: [dvd-discuss] Comparing DeCSS with legitimate code.

[Tom <tom(at)lemuria.org>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:54:13PM +0100, Mark Roberts wrote:
> exists. Has it been pointed out to the court that every legitimate DVD 
> player in the world has code which performs exactly the same function as 
> DeCSS  ?

that is not true. especially later versions of decss have a much more
sophisticated key handling than the commercial dvd players.


> Unless the court can say what DeCSS does that a legitimate player does 
> not, there is surely no way that it can be ruled illegal.

let's see:

- decss reads DVDs regardless of region coding
- decss allows skipping of the FBI warning
- decss reads DVDs regardless of key revocation (later versions)
- decss doesn't even need a key (later versions)


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