What I'm pissed off about is that software DVD players for Linux will suffer because of this. I believe that open source produces better software, we can't enjoy it in this case.

Which was the whole point of DeCSS in the first place, as I recall: To allow for the creation of an open-source DVD player which could run on Linux.

The problem is the side effect was to crack the copy protection. Not that it was terribly effective copy protection to begin with (it didn't prevent copying, as you pointed out, it only prevented playback on anything but a licensed player which could decode the encrypted stream).


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Tony Fabris