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Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jan 8 09:32:06 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:45:08 -0500
In message <87of6smnzb.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
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>I don't know anyone who trades video files -- they're pretty big and
>bulky. A song takes moments to download, but a movie takes many many
>hours even on a high speed link. I have yet to meet someone who
>pirates films -- but I know lots of hardened criminals who watch DVDs
>on Linux and BSD. I'm one of these "criminals".
I'm 100% certain it's happening, today. And -- dare I suggest that the
industry is being farsighted in anticipating higher bandwidth, and
wants to close the barn door *before* the horse's image is "stolen"?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
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