[NTLUG:Discuss] MI2 boycott

[Mark Bainter]

Brian Koontz [pongo at cinnabar.valtech.com] wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> > 
> > travis.farral at nokia.com wrote:
>  
> > I don't think that's true. DeCSS decrypts the DVD - and the decrypted
> > movie is far to big to copy *anywhere*.  If you wanted to copy a DVD,
> > the last thing you'd want is DeCSS making the file ten times larger!
> 
> Anything you can see or hear, you can copy.  Which means the argument
> that DeCSS can't be used for copying is a sham.
> 
> BTW, I'm all for the distribution of DeCSS.  I believe the MPAA, in its
> authoritarian arrogance, is flat-out wrong.  But this all comes back to
> what I keep saying:  Don't try to insult people's intelligence by
> bullshitting them.  Yes, DeCSS can be used to make illegal copies
> (analog copies, but they're still copies) of DVD's.  There's really no
> argument around it, try as you might.
> 

Alright, if you want to put it that way, fine.  I'll agree with that.  But in
that case, if you think it's /bad/ then to be consistent you have think /all/ 
dvd players are bad.  Because /all/ dvd players can be used to copy dvd's in that
fasion.  DeCSS is the same technology DVD players use to play dvd's.  

But, if that is your argument, then you're argument is irrelevant.  The
argument that is really at the forefront here is that the MPAA is calling
DeCSS a tool for pirating DVD's in a fashion /different/ from what all other
DVD players are capable of doing and it's flat out not true.  /That/ is what
the MPAA is talking about, and that is what we are talking about.  Your
position is something completely different.  Why clutter the debate?

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ladder, feeling pretty darn good about myself, when someone told me the 'J'
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