DVD ENCRYPTION
...ian computer science student for an alleged violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He gave a speech in a Las Vegas hotel regarding Adobe eBooks entitled: “e Book Security: Theory and Practice" The application addressed in the speech bypasses Adobe eBooks security only if you have previously purchased the eBook. Furthermore, it allows the purchaser to backup their eBook, read the eBook on a platform other than Windows and is useful to the Blind. Adobe had him arrested. Since when are people arrested for pointing out a flaw?I think this law, should be reviewed and challenged. Free Speech allows anyone to criticize and demonstrate flaws within corporate products. I feel this quote from Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News best sums up what the DCMA is doing: “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a gift to the well-financed entertainment and software industries, trashed the public interest. It gave copyright owners the right to assert absolute control over copyrighted material, effectively allowing them to prevent the public from asserting a variety of traditional user's rights, including the ``fair use'' of making personal copies.” What you really must understand with DeCSS and not forget is DVD encryption does nothing to prevent content piracy. A pirate doesn't have to know how to decode DVDs to make bit-for-bit copies of them by the thousands. And no DVD player can distinguish between a legally distributed original and a pira...