Re: [MLUG] Perl DVD Descramber

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:

> A title key is a collection of bits and cannot possibly be considered
> intellectual property.  The thing that makes this, and all of the
> other descramblers violate the law is that the judge is paid by the
> plaintiff and will thus always rule in their favor.  There aren't many
> other reasons.

Everything can be represented, or at least approximated, as a collection
of bits, so I'm not clear on your reasoning in the first sentence of your
response.  Regarding bribery, either you are being facetious, or you are
wrong.

Neil said that the new perl descrambler is not illegal, but many other
descramblers are illegal.  If Neil was correct, there are two types of
descramblers -- legal and illegal -- and there is some way to distinguish
the two types of descramblers.  I'm just wondering what makes the
difference between a legal descrambler and an illegal descrambler.

My thought was that the difference might have something to do with which
algorithm is used to decrypt the DVD.  It looks like there might be
several steps to the process with decrypting of one or more keys having to
occur before the .vob files are translated to decrypted mpeg.  If that is
correct, then maybe software written to crack the keys is considered
illegal, but software written to descramble the DVD using keys as input is
not illegal.

So I'm still wondering if that isn't how the law works.

Mike

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