From: Miguel F. <mi...@ce...> - 2002-02-05 11:52:52
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On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 09:32, Andrei Lahun wrote: > Hello Miguel. > I have tried to contact with maintainer but still no respond. > About possible problems i read that guy who created Asfrecorder which reverse ingenered mms protocol had some problems. > But now such code already in Mplayer for example. And they still donot have troubles . Still . > > Andrei My vote is to include mms in xine tree unless someone complains. We are the good guys of all that mess, and while xine remains as a media player ONLY, i believe the following advice from openlaw applies (on DMCA aka 1201f): According to 1201(f), a "a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program" may circumvent access control technology for two purposes: - To analyze and identify "those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs". - To achieve said interoperability between computer programs. These actions are limited to the extent that committing them constitutes copyright infringement. http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dvd-discuss-faq.html We are not infringing any copyright as the user has the "lawfully right" to watch the video over mms. I don't even think the mms protocol may be considered an "access control technology". IMHO this is a clear example of reverse engineering for interoperability, much like what samba folks did. regards, Miguel |