3 Comments

1. Anon-K says:

   October 27, 2011 at 12:45 pm

   DeCSS
   Unfortunately Mr Kline missed a point on the use of DeCSS. CSS is licensed; the manufacturers of DVD players and the publishers of DVD playing software pay a licensing fee to incorporate the decoder. What makes DeCSS illegal in the US is that the writers of DeCSS did not pay the licensing fee.
2. N. Telling says:

   October 27, 2011 at 3:26 pm

   “What makes DeCSS illegal in the US is that the writers of DeCSS did not pay the licensing fee. ”

   Yeah, but THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. CSS is a useless technology anyways since it’s long since been cracked.
3. Napalm says:

   October 30, 2011 at 12:52 am

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   @N. Telling: “CSS is a useless technology”

   Actually it’s very useful, in the same sense that Dolby and DTS are useful on Blu-Ray. It creates a “revenue stream” for the licensers.