[Lilug] DMCA petition (fwd)

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi all,

     Thought you folks would like to see, and possibly act upon this.  If
this is a dup, please forgive, I'm about 260 msgs behind.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:12:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt <odinson at warcloud.net>
Reply-To: lilug at lilug.org
To: lilug at lilug.org
Subject: [Lilug] DMCA petition

Hello all

I have added a few lines to my .sig (like it wasn't long enough
:) including the link to a DMCA petition.  Please sign it if you don't
agree with this law.

http://www.dibona.com/dmca/


Matthew Newhall
President of LILUG
Long Island Linux Users Group
president at lilug.org
http://lilug.org

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Please sign a petition to repeal the DMCA.  http://www.dibona.com/dmca/

The following code is a PERL script capable of decoding a encrypted DVD
(necessary to watch a DVD on a Linux machine) in real time.  This is
illegal to use according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a set of
laws passed by anonymous vote in congress in 1998.  The MPAA feels that
they must stop you from using this code to watch DVD movies because
then...

...they can't charge extraneous license fees to DVD player creators,
...they can't force you to watch the commercials,
...they can't charge you more money according to your wealth or region
code.

$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72, at z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0, at z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"", at b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$
d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^$d>>4^
$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^
(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for at a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*", at a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval

If you are interested in learning more about how to create your own DVD
decoder you can take the authors class on the subject at MIT
http://www.mit.edu/iap/dvd

If you want to help fight this far reaching legislation or defend fair use in
general, donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org




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