Posted by Jeff Rife on 02/23/06 04:34

Goro (evilninjax@yahoo.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> They claimed that Samsung's DVD players allowed consumers to avoid
> encryption features that prevent unauthorized duplication and demanded
> a recall of all the problematic products, Bloomberg said.

This is a *great* lawsuit for the consumer.

The Samsung player merely allows HDCP to be turned off. The movie studios
will have to prove that HDCP actually could "prevent unauthorized
duplication" in order to win their case.

If they can't, then it would no longer be even a hint of a DMCA violation
to disable HDCP, because DMCA only protects systems that prevent
duplication...not those that prevent "unauthorized viewing".

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