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Article #362Re: Software groups warn of FTA dangers
From: Sylvia Else
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:46
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:46
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Benny Cemoli wrote: > It's inherent to Open Source that any descrambling code which will > enable you to watch a DVD or DRM protected media will also allow someone > to copy it. Only if they have the necessary technical skill to extract the relevant parts of the source, and create the additional software framework required to perform the copying. This is not fundamentally different from writing code to capture the byte stream being sent to the driver of a video card under windows. The question is not whether the software goes someway to enabling copying, but whether that is what it is for, and whether it has any other commercially significant purpose. If you want to release a viewer in source form, one issue raised is whether Open Source can have a commercially significant purpose. That's another debate. Sylvia.
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