- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:59:12 -0800
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "HTML WG (public-html@w3.org)" <public-html@w3.org>, David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com>
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: >> Short of hardware encryption, an encrypted stream is no more special than an >> arbitrary codec. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS > > They might be legally special in some places. In particular, it's definitely legally special in the US. Decoding an arbitrary codec is always legal, module patent issues. Decrypting a stream without permission is illegal, thanks to the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. The two are only the same thing in a vague engineering sense, and even then there are important details that make them different (namely, the secret that you have to keep away from the user). ~TJ
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