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). ~TJReceived on Friday, 24 February 2012 16:59:59 UTC
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