Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 5:54 am, Marcus Cooper wrote:

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> Without slagging off anyone's country and their laws (God knows the UK
> have such a great history on stupid laws) that is a really scary law.
> Doesn't that effectively mean that any discussion of reverse
> enginneering is illegal in Germany. I know that's not what the law is
> trying to do but it looks like that is a very likely side effect.

Until the buying public gets their belly full of this crap, and I don't know 
that they will - but SHOULD, things will only get worse! It's one of the ways 
MickySoft is attacking Linux and open source through "the back door." 
Supporting HD DVD instead of Blue Ray is just another example. They've 
already started the lie and FUD machinery about the differences.

What WOULD be effective, and I wish it was doable, is to have a large enough 
boycott of ALL encrypted DVDs world wide long enough so that it hits ALL 
producers HARD in the pocketbook!! It's the only way I can think of to get 
their attention.

Fred

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