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Wasn't DeCSS held legal in the US for purposes of playing back DVDs you've purchased? Shouldn't consuming e-books fall under the same ruling?
by e12e 5y ago
Wasn't DeCSS held legal in the US for purposes of playing back DVDs you've purchased? Shouldn't consuming e-books fall under the same ruling?
- marcosdumay 5y agoIf I remember it correctly, CSS was deemed too weak for being considered copy protection. But I'm far from an expert. I'm not even from the US.
- e12e 5y agoActually, from skimming the linked white paper: https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-unde... It looks like there's no way to watch DVDs legally with FOSS (still) in the US? On the other hand the precedent for ebooks seem a bit better? https://www.eff.org/es/press/archives/2008/04/21 https://www.eff.org/es/press/archives/2008/04/21
- bubblethink 5y agoNo, it wasn't held legal. You can't play commercial dvds, blurays, etc. on vanilla fedora.