DVD Players & these DeCSS Rulings

[steve_dum at mentorg.com]

You missed the implicit wink. I don't think it's more compatible.
It does create a need for DeCSS that is not to play commercial dvd's.


In message <200403131702.22018.wes at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>you write:
>steve_dum at mentorg.com wrote:
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>> it would be legal to distribute a program that allowed individuals
>> to record their own personal DVD's using DeCSS encription (to assure
>> maximal compatibility with DVD players)
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>I'm not even going to speculate on the legality issue, but where did you 
>get the idea that using CSS makes a disc more compatible?  CSS is a purely 
>optional part of DVD encoding; a not inconsiderable number of commercial 
>DVDs are released without CSS scrambling, probably because it's 
>cheaper--no paying CSS fees through your mastering/replication facility.  
>It'll be interesting to see if these fees go away now...
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>--wes (sorry for the OT digression)
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