Restricted Multimedia Formats - The Problem

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 22 19:03:35 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:45 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> Distributing support for these formats seems easy, but it's still
> illegal in certain countries (such as the USA), because they use
> technologies covered by software patents and/or their
> reverse-engineering violates the DMCA. 

You are still singling out the USA - you say "certain countries" then
cite a US law!

You should also drop the "still", software patents are not going away.

Lee




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