Re; VIDEO_TS

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/06/10 00:20, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> But the only thing is that CSS is patented....it belongum to private,
>> profit making entity and so it wantum lotsa pearl shells in exchange
>> for you using that technology...
>>      
> Well, it may be patented but if I understand our patent law right, I may
> use that technology at home for non-commercial purposes anyway - without
> handing over "lotsa pearl shells" to the patent owner. But other
> countries may have no mercy with individual private users of patented
> technology.
>
>
> Nils
>    

This response also touches on what Reinhold stated in the post following 
yours, and which I omitted in my original response to avoid making it 
big: the equipment one buys to play these DVDs with CSS/DRM/whatever 
protection contains the ability to decrypt such protection - otherwise 
nobody would be able to view the DVDs. One is paying the "pearl shells" 
via the cost of the equipment when one buys an "approved" DVD player 
which will play such DVDs.

But there are DVD players available which will play such DVDs without 
blinking an eye-lid - and not cost an arm and a leg when you buy the 
unit. I have been told to avoid anything Sony (or MS for that matter) 
because of their adherence to DRM - but then all this stuff does not 
affect me, and so to me its all academic.

BC


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