The new precedence for being legally responsible for just linking to another site containing the software is the most scary part. Copyleft was named among the defendants for printing part of the code on a shirt (which I purchased... 4or 5 bux goes to the deCSS legal team). The deCSS legal team expected to loose this case and fully intended to take it to the Supreme Court. This whole thing is crazy. The funny thing is that deCSS isn't even used anymore to rip DVD vob's....it fails on the new encryption schema's. Vobdec is the new tool and it works w/ mulitangle DVD angles as well. What do they hope to accomplish? Do they think they can stop this kind of stuff from being created and distributed? Virii is illegal to make and distribute but how many new virii come out each month? It can't be stopped. Regards, Mike Cantrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim" To: Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Its official - freedom on the net is dying > What it means, if the ruling stands, is that you will only be able to play > a DVD on an officially-licensed machine with the attendant higher price > due to the fees extracted by the MPAA. > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote: > > Does that mean the Linux will never legally be able to display DVD movies? > > > > Don > > > > > > > DeCSS is now illegal content on your website. So is linking to a site > > > containing it. You know where to find more information if you want it, > > > but be careful - big government and the big corporations are watching you. > > > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > Zope is cool! > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > Jim > > Zope is cool! > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss