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If you create a video player that can play DVDs are you also infringing on their copyright?
by Siecje 12y ago
If you create a video player that can play DVDs are you also infringing on their copyright?
- PM_Tech 12y agoYou are if the video player finds copyright DVDs and then delivers them to your door without the permission of the content creator. So yes. Stop being absurd.
- icebraining 12y agoHow is the DVD player supposed to know whether you've got permission or not? Buy the way, the fact that they're "copyright" is irrelevant. Every new work, including ever Creative Commons license work is copyrighted.
- justizin 12y agoActually, if you look into the DeCSS debacle, this was an early test of the DMCA. A Windows software DVD player leaked its' keys, and this was used to create a small bit of code that broke the DVD CSS DRM scheme. Of course, you have never used any software that rips DVDs into video files, but if you had, it would almost definitely be based on this code, which was printed on t-shirts as a means of distribution.
- hookshot 12y agoThe ability to play a legitimate dvd would make the player qualify for safe harbor under the Betamax case.