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    <B>Tux99</B> 
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    <I>Thu Oct 14 12:06:32 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Anssi Hannula wrote:

&gt;<i> &gt; Oops, didn't notice the above posts were about DRM only, not patents...
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; anyway, ibiblio contains such distros as well.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> BTW, according to 17 U.S.C. Sec. 1201(f) circumvention of protection measures 
</I>&gt;<i> is allowed if it is necessary to achieve interoperability with other software.
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</I>&gt;<i> Of course, this may not apply to CSS...
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I don't know if you read the following article, but it looks like even 
in the US the laws are actually much less strict now, than people seem 
to think:

<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/billington-opens-new-dmca-loopholes/6942">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/billington-opens-new-dmca-loopholes/6942</A>

I'd say this is another strong argument towards including libdvdcss 
on the CD/DVD of the Mageia distro.

(Regardless of my opinion that we should only care about French law 
anyway)

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