Re: [MLUG] Anyone planning on getting a OLPC laptop?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jack Smith wrote:

> There are no movie-playing programs that I am aware of on Linux that 
> have an official CSS decryption key and are legal to distribute in the 
> U.S. However, CSS is very easy to crack as a very short Perl program 
> called DeCSS can simply brute-force it a matter or milliseconds. That's 
> pretty much how everybody on Linux plays DVDs. I've never heard of 
> anybody getting in trouble over using DeCSS as the servers that host the 
> DeCSS code as well as programs that have it bundled do not reside in the 
> U.S. and include the appropriate "WARNING: due to the DMCA, using this 
> program may be illegal in the U.S." notification. The author of DeCSS, 
> Jon Johannsen, was sued but got off as he is a Swede and breaking DRM is 
> not illegal there- only doing something illegal afterwards (hosting the 
> file to BitTorrent, for example) is.

I know about DeCSS, sort of.  I remember studying it a little once upon a 
time.  It seemed to require some sort of key that was different for every 
DVD.  Am I wrong?  Anyway, I couldn't figure out how to use it so I 
stopped trying, but that was like 7 years ago or something.

Is there a good web page about how to actually use DeCSS to play a DVD on 
a Linux machine?

Mike

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