Comments on: Supreme court denied leave of appeal in the CSS case http://www.turre.com/2008/12/supreme-court-denied-leave-of-appeal-in-the-css-case/ Experts in Technology, Media, and Entertainment Law Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:14:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mikko Välimäki http://www.turre.com/2008/12/supreme-court-denied-leave-of-appeal-in-the-css-case/comment-page-1/#comment-131067 Mikko Välimäki Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:22:30 +0000 http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=188#comment-131067 Ossi, you are correct on condition that we accept the Court of Appeals statement of facts that you cannot circumvent CSS "accidentally". Anyone familiar with CSS encryption knows that many people who circumvent it with some open source player do it without knowing a system called CSS exists in the first place. Think your parents or your wife, for example. This is why I cannot personally accept the conclusions of the Court of Appeals and keep on claiming that CSS is indeed "ineffective" in Finland with correct reading of the facts. One random court reading the facts like it did (and without hearing the case) does not change my opinion. Ossi, you are correct on condition that we accept the Court of Appeals statement of facts that you cannot circumvent CSS “accidentally”. Anyone familiar with CSS encryption knows that many people who circumvent it with some open source player do it without knowing a system called CSS exists in the first place. Think your parents or your wife, for example. This is why I cannot personally accept the conclusions of the Court of Appeals and keep on claiming that CSS is indeed “ineffective” in Finland with correct reading of the facts. One random court reading the facts like it did (and without hearing the case) does not change my opinion.

]]> By: Ossi Mäntylahti http://www.turre.com/2008/12/supreme-court-denied-leave-of-appeal-in-the-css-case/comment-page-1/#comment-131037 Ossi Mäntylahti Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:14:50 +0000 http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=188#comment-131037 It however seems that *distribution* or assisting distribution of DeCSS / libdvdcss components is illegal in Finland. It would be interesting to know if posting information about how to obtain decss components can be seen as providing assistance for breaking css. Example: posting a blog entry or newspaper article illustrating how to to add unofficial decss repository for Ubuntu and downloading decss component with package manager. It however seems that *distribution* or assisting distribution of DeCSS / libdvdcss components is illegal in Finland.

It would be interesting to know if posting information about how to obtain decss components can be seen as providing assistance for breaking css. Example: posting a blog entry or newspaper article illustrating how to to add unofficial decss repository for Ubuntu and downloading decss component with package manager.

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