[Linux-Discussion] Re: Perl DVD decoder
- From: Nils Vogels <nivo+linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:05:01 +0100
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:42:57AM -0500, John Madden wrote:
>
>
> This was on Slashdot this morning - I feel it's worthy of a repost (the
> archive will make a nice mirror ;)). It's a perl script that does DVD
> decoding, and it's something the movie industry feels we shouldn't have--
> that makes it even better. :)
>
The original file can be found on:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/qrpff-fast.pl
I wonder if the movie companies will sue the creators as well.. It's going to
be hard tho, since it is a perl script, and perl is GPL..
I wonder.. if they would just put GPL copyright on their script, would that
protect them enough ?
Grtz,
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