[MPlayer-users] DeCSS legal status

[Christof Buergi]

Am Montag, 31. März 2003 20.56 schrieb Brett Kosinski:
> Oooh, do keep in mind that players must be licensed by the DVD
> consortium, or whatever it is.  This is how players get legal copies
> of the DVD keys. So creating a player without such a license may very
> well be illegal.

No, this one I can deny. Not licensed != not legal. A license is nothing 
but a piece of paper, that allows you to do something, what otherwise 
would infringe intellectual property of any kind. The only problem with 
DeCSS in that direction is the "stolen" player keys, which might 
infringe copyright. But as I said before, those keys can easily be 
removed, without removing actual functionality (the opening of a DVD 
will be slower, but that's it).

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