On 19/06/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:41 +0100, vijay chopra wrote: > On 18/06/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ACSS decryption code? :) > > You mean 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 ? No, that's just a decryption key. I meant the whole of the software package which decodes ACSS. Like libdvdcss does for CSS. It's the CSS situation which highlights just how silly the situation with DRM is -- the criminals are almost entirely unaffected, and the only people who are _really_ inconvenienced are the honest consumers who just want to watch the content to which they're entitled. Honest people are scared to distribute and use libdvdcss, because they think they might have legal problems if they do. Obviously the ones who are using it to break the law anyway don't care about that, so they just go ahead.
I totally agree, however seeing as I have no intention of breaking the spirit of the law (I may be breaching a technicality) I have no qualms in using any software to break copy protection to make personal backups, and supply it to others if requested. I regularly get told by friends and family "my computer won't let me copy this DVD" my reply is either to do it for them, or give them a CD with the appropriate tools on it. I doubt that the BPI is likely to come after me as a pirate (Argghh!) as I only back up for personal use, and only use file sharing services in legal ways. The only thing I have downloaded unlawfully is an out of print RPG book, that I would be happy to pay for, if only I could find someone selling it!
In english that's; thirteen undecillion, two hundred fifty six decillion, > two hundred seventy eight nonillion, eight hundred eighty seven octillion, > nine hundred eighty nine septillion, four hundred fifty seven sexillion, six > hundred fifty one quintillion, eighteen quadrillion, eight hundred sixty > five trillion, nine hundred one billion, four hundred one million, seven > hundred four thousand, six hundred forty. That's American, not English.
Granted; I just got that number off the net as I cant be bothered to work it out for myself.
Sure I will, you can't copyright a number, and I'd like to see anyone > try and sue me for posing one. We digress.... but I'm dubious about that argument. You can represent _anything_ with 'just a number'. I could buy a DVD, decrypt it and send the entire thing to this list in hex form, calling it 'just a number'. Would that make it OK?
The flipside to that is when does it become a "normal" number again? I translated the ACSS decryption key back into base10 if I were then to perform various other mathematical functions on it would it stop being the ACSS key? What if I needed that number for another purpose? I'm not saying that posting an entire DVD in hex is OK, just asking questions. --
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