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[FYI] Interview mit Jon "DeCSS" Johansen
- To: Fitug ML <debate@fitug.de>
- Subject: [FYI] Interview mit Jon "DeCSS" Johansen
- From: Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <js@digital-movie.de>
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:10:49 +0000
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- Organization: Digital Movie
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Auf dvdfuture.com findet sich heute unter
http://www.dvdfuture.com/features/jon/index.php3
ein Interview mit Jon Johansen. Inhaltlich zwar kaum
neues, dafuer aber aus erster Hand.
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[...]
Ken Pierce: The MPAA and the DVD CCA both claim that the
software you helped develop was designed primarily to crack
the copy protection on DVD movies. The OpenDVD consortium
and various other sources claim the software was developed
simply for the purpose of playing back DVD movies on unsup-
ported operating systems (i.e. Linux, BeOS). When the soft-
ware was being developed, what was the original intent?
Jon Johansen: The original intent was to be able to develop
Linux dvd playback capabilities. This automatically includes
other open operating systems.
[...]
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Olaf
--
I want more features! I want anamorphic! I am going to boycott the whole
damn world until I get it!! Er, okay, maybe I'm going overboard,but hey,
it's Showgirls.I mean, it isn't like we're just talking about some dinky
little film like Lawrence Of Arabia...geesh! (dvdfile.com, 17.01.2000)