On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:13:31PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 15:04, Jan Schmidt wrote: > > <quote who="Anthony Towns"> > > > > > Yay. Linux DVD playing is doomed. > > > > > > 7(e) then goes on to limit the exceptions that can be created to: > > > > > > (i) reverse engineering for interoperability > > > > This one leaves me feeling comfortable enough to write DVD playback software > > already, without the later clause. > > Bad Anthony paraphrased. Here's the section: > "non-infringing reverse engineering activities with regard to a > lawfully obtained copy of a computer program, carried out in good faith > with respect to the paraticular elements of that computer program that > have not been readily available to the person egnaged in such activity, > for the sole purpose of achieving interoparability of an independently > created computer program with other programs" > > ie. is a DVD a computer program? If not, you're SOL. Well, it has a whole bunch of executable code that's probably enough to class it as a 'program', and I don't know what a DVD player is if not a computer ... -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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