[plug] Re: Aussie DMCA is here now!

[Christian]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:09:07AM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
 
> The use of software such as DeCSS won't be proscribed, for exempted
> purposes.  You're free to download DeCSS for purposes of writing a
> Linux DVD player that is interoperable with
> the DVD standard, so long as the software you create is not in itself
> in breach of intellectual property (eg. copyright or patent) rights. 

So if they used a patented encryption algorithm then you'd be back to
square one...