RE: [OT] DVD reading (was Re: Misc hardware questions

[Alan Mead]

At 11:46 PM 1/10/00 -0500, rpjday wrote:

>careful.  decss has nothing to do with copying.  i think we should be
>very cautious in describing what decss really is, which is a *player*.
>just being pedantic.

I think this thread has worn itself out but let me agree to the conclusion
that this is all about perceptions by suggesting that software named
something like 'dvdplay' might raise fewer concerns than something with
De(crypt) in the title.  In English, de- also often means 'against' as in
'against CSS'.
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