[NTLUG:Discuss] DeCSS -- losing the limelight

[Mark Bainter]

Brian Koontz [pongo at cinnabar.valtech.com] wrote:
> 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?

Nope.  Like others have mentioned you aren't even making an accurate
comparison.  However, I find DivX encouraging.  I'm hoping someone actually
makes a format out of this and makes it popular enough that the movie industry
is forced into using it.  /That/ would make me very happy.  But, till then, I
don't see myself using it for anything.  

-- 
"What Arnon refuses to say, probably to stay in the good graces of
Microsoft, is that shaving offmost of NT may be the only way to make the
operating system stable enough to compete with Unix for running
high-availability applications."
				-- Robin Hohman, Network World, pg 24