[NTLUG:Discuss] DeCSS -- losing the limelight

[Cameron]

* pongo at cinnabar.valtech.com [2000.05.12 10:12]:
: All that discussion we had last week about DeCSS, the MPAA, etc. has
: already been technologically eclipsed.  There are now bigger fish to
: fry, something that will probably push DeCSS back into the dusty realm
: of old news:
: 
: http://www.msnbc.com/news/402970.asp?cp1=1
: 
: So now, the big question is:  Do we embrace DivX with the same fervor as
: DeCSS, all in the name of software freedom?
: 

it looks to me like your comparing apples to oranges.  DivX is a
compression algo, like MP3.  i don't see how it relates to DeCSS, and i
definately don't see it stealing DeCSS's limelight.  DeCSS is about
having the freedom to watch DVDs on your linux box.  DivX lets you
compress the movies in the same way that you can rip and compress tracks
from your audio CDs--which can be used for good (in the free enterprise
sense) or evil (in the socialist sense).  hmm...i've said too much.
later!
-- 
cameron
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