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LAME included?

LAME included?

Posted Nov 10, 2005 19:31 UTC (Thu) by Thue (subscriber, #14277)
In reply to: LAME included? by hingo
Parent article: Sony, rootkits, and the escalation of the DRM war

One of the purposes for the DRM program is to prevent CD rippers from working, so that string is probably just being used when detecting LAME.

If this is the case then the use of that string falls under fair use, ie not a copyright violation.


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LAME included?

Posted Nov 14, 2005 8:13 UTC (Mon) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

Good point. Just to be clear, because I didn't spell it out above, the other alternative is that it has LAME statically linked.

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