[Patents] [jeff_grove@ACM.ORG: FYI - USACM statement was distributed this morning...]

[critto@poczta.wp.pl (Krzysztof Sobolewski)]

From:                   Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
To:                     patents@liberte.aful.org
Send reply to:          Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
Subject:                [Patents] [jeff_grove@ACM.ORG: FYI - USACM 
statement was distributed this morning...]
Date sent:              Fri, 4 May 2001 10:13:16 +0200

> Regarding DMCA
> 
> Recall that rules that forbid the use or dissemination of tools and
> information for circumventing copyright protection technology
>  1- is worse than patents since there is not even a way to get a
> licence.  For example, forbidding DeCSS can be effectively used to
> prevent the viewing of DVD on Linux ... without any alternative.  It
> is total control of platforms via the control of content.  There is no
> compulsory licensing.
>  2- may be soon in effect in Europe, thans to the recent vote in the
> European parliament on April 9th.

Bernard !!!
   I agree with you completely, 100 %, be sure.
Let's start a campaign against "extended copyright" (not the 
copyright itself). Let's show the people, that, in the name of 
"combating piracy" the CENSORSHIP is being imposed on the 
people and each and every individual.
Anyway, do you know qrpff, that short program to decode ANY dvd 
??? Whether you know or not, I'm sending it now:

---------------         qrpff begins 
------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz 
# MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout
# arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order
$_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=m
ap{$_%16or$t^=$c^=(
$m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,@z=(64
,72,$a^=12*($_%16
-
2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*"
,$_)[20]&48){$h
=5;$_=unxb24,join"",@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@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack
+/g;eval
---------------- qrpff ends ----------------------------------------------

WARNING !! it seems a bit 'messed' now, but just cut it, paste it 
into any editor (eg. notepad), and it should become the full-column 
again. Now it is adjusted to 72 columns as e-mail related RFC 
commands.

NOBODY will be able to stop the distribution of such a program. 
we may put it on the webpages, on chat channels, on newsgroups, 
mailgroups, or even on paper leaflets (print on a good printer) and 
then disseminate it allover our cities. 

So, DMCA could have stuffed themselves now. 

 Yours In Liberty,
     Critto