Reverse engineering

[Steve Gehlbach]

ollie lho wrote:

> Then why a DVD player with DeCSS not a "interoperatable" software ?
> 

Ah, yes, a very good question.  This was answered by Judge Kaplan in the 
DeCSS decision (Universal City v. Reimerdes, US District Court, So. 
District of NY).  The reason is that the US legislature (apparently) 
only intended the reverse engineering exception to apply to 
interoperating with _software_, not movies.  So it only applies to 
software (at least in the Judge's opinion, which counts in NY and 
probably everywhere else until a higher court says differently).  Which, 
among a whole bunch of other reasons, is why Eric Corley lost the case. 
  The prosecution of Jon Johansen still goes on today AFAIK in Norway.

-Steve