Legal Status of libdvdcss

[Shawn McMahon]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:34:49PM +0000, Matthew East said:
> 
> But, the wikipedia article says:

(snipped for brevity)

> Does anyone know what is going on here? I'd really appreciate knowing

What's going on here is that Wikipedia is edited by international
volunteers.  CSS is, for purposes of US law, a copy protection system.
For purposes of international computer science academia terminology,
it's not a copy protection system.

FWIW, the Wikipedia entry on Copy Protection says it *IS* a copy
protection system.  The lawyers who would sue Canonical, and the courts
in which they'd file the suits, say it is too.


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