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Jon Johansen returns to courtJon Johansen returns to courtPosted Dec 5, 2003 16:34 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Jon Johansen returns to court by RobSeace Parent article: Jon Johansen returns to court Giles refers to the conclusion of law mentioned in the article: The court, however, decided that, if you buy a DVD with a film on it, you have bought the right to access that film. Linux users often apply that conclusion to DECSS by reasoning that if you're a Linux user, you've bought the right to access the film on Linux, and outlawing DECSS would deprive people of their rights. Ergo, writing DECSS must be legal. So if DECSS were a Windows-only program, that would completely obliterate that argument. So yes, it's originally being a Windows program changes things. There are a dozen reasons it doesn't change things enough to make a difference, but it does change things.
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Jon Johansen returns to court Posted Dec 6, 2003 19:38 UTC (Sat) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link] No, I don't see any way in which that argument is "obliterated"... Thelegal ruling quoted makes no mention of Linux, or any other OS... It says, "you have bought the right to access that film"... Period... However and wherever and under whatever OS you like... If you want to access it under Windoze instead of Linux, well then so be it... You might be accused of having poor taste in OS's, but that's not a crime... ;-) And, no, it doesn't matter that you already COULD access it under Windoze, because you couldn't FULLY access it, in any way you might choose to... And, you have a right to do so... Also, remember it was an open source app, so the fact that it happened to be To make a comparison, would you claim that OpenSSH isn't important to Linux
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