[MPlayer-users] Illegal binaries...

[Alex Kloss]

> > > you mean binary packages would be illegal? sounds good ;)
> >
> > Binary packages doesn't contain speech (like comments, strings, etc...).
> > As such, their freedom isn't covered by the freedom of speech. Violating
> > the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, a binary would be illegal.
>
> it has been argued that binary is just another form of source - just as
> source is a recipe that has to be used with a compiler, the binary is a
> recipe that has to be used with hardware :)
>
That's true enough, but the judge decided upon the source of the DeCSS 
utiltiy to be covered by the freedom of speech. I guess 0x64,0x24,0xFA,... is 
not speech in the meaning of the law, anyway.
>
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