[CrackMonkey] Tell The World About Your Information Rights -- Friday, 2/4/2000

[Seth David Schoen]

Mr. Bad writes:

> The Motion Picture Association of America has begun suits against
> Linux developers and Web site owners across the globe to stop the
> distribution of a piece of DVD-playing software for Linux.

Note that DeCSS is a Windows program and can't be run on Linux.

The current popular opinion seems to be that the Linux CSS code in (say)
LiViD is derived from DeCSS and wouldn't have been possible without
the various things that were revealed in DeCSS.

All this bears more looking into.

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