[wellylug] Mini-ITX Motherboard

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I pay for a license to use the encryption when I buy the player/burner - it 
happens the implementation is in Windows format, but the license is a 
license.

Reverse engineering is legal to allow me to take advantage of equipment I've 
bought and code I've licensed, regardless of clauses in the license 
forbidding it., both in the US and in NZ from what I've read  As well, 
copyright laws allow for "fair use" which includes me using the content in 
different form.

I can't make copies for someone else, but I can make copies for my own use.

I can see a case of requiring a license for the algorithm, but once I've got 
that, I am legally allowed to express the implementation in other forms for 
my own use if it's convenient for me to do so.  To make me pay for a hardware 
modification that only let's me use one operating system, or to try to forbid 
me from using an alternate implementation is not supported by the actual 
copyright laws - that's banditry on the part of the people attempting to 
force this choice on me.

Industry's fear that I "might" use this capability to violate their copyright 
doesn't convey to them the authority to extend the meaning of the laws 
involved.

I'm afraid that that fellow in the car next to me "might" become a road-rage 
shooter and kill a dozen people - but that doesn't allow me to pretend the 
law gives me authority to stop him pre-emptively.  "I'm taking your car, 
buddy.  I think you may need to calm down some day."

The Roman Empire is no more - societies change.  It's ok with me if the 
Entertainment Industry as we've known it changes - people in the broad are 
more important than that small slice of life.  But for them to try to limit 
my rights so they can remain in a position they like - sorry.

Our rules are fair, and we change them from time to time as we see imbalances.  
Industry gets to shut up and play by them.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:07, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> > So you are saying that if I go buy a trailer I should just be able to
> > go
> > take a car to tow it.  After all my means of transport, a pushbike,
> > isn't
> > supported by the trailer.
>
> A towbar is an open standard. There is nothing stopping you making a
> bike-trailer adaptor.
>
> DVD decryption, however, is not open. It's like if towbars had a
> proprietary lump on the top that you had to pay $1000 for and keep the
> moulding process secret.
> --
> Phillip Hutchings
> sitharus at sitharus.com
> http://www.sitharus.com/
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