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Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

Posted Oct 12, 2009 7:16 UTC (Mon) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker) by drag
Parent article: Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux (Lifehacker)

> So breaking the DRM is easy, but it would automatically be hit with a DMCA
> violation for breaking digital copyright protection schemes, or whatever is
> the equivalent in Canada or the EU or whatever. (DMCA is really just a
> legislation passed to enforce a international treaty if you look at it
> closely)

Doesn't this fall under the reverse engineering clause of the DMCA? There is some confusing language in there about "achiev[ing] interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs."

If not, support could still be added to Gnash / SWFDec in loadable module form. Not everyone lives in the US and Canada.

C.


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