“As the Second Circuit has held in Universal v. I asked Wendy Seltzer, a lawyer and DMCA expert who teaches Information Privacy and Intellectual Property at American University, what she thought of the VLC player. I asked a few representatives at the MPAA for a comment on the newest version of VLC a few days ago. The federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans providing information or tools to evade copy-control technology, including the Content Scramble System that’s used in DVD media.
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users of the software are breaking the law, according to copyright attorneys. copyright laws that state companies that sell DVD-copying tools and the U.S. Software, services, and tools to copy DVDs have been flourishing for years despite U.S. “VLC needs to break CSS protection to play DVDs,” Kempf wrote adding “I am sorry, but I don’t think this is news at all.” He may be right. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VLC developer, wrote in an e-mail that in order for VLC to copy a DVD the player needs to bypass the DVD’s copy protection. I contacted VideoLAN, the makers of VLC, and asked the developers to explain the new video capturing feature in its 1.0 release. Another recent DVD, The Da Vinci Code, played in VLC but refused to copy. The Narnia DVD even sported the “copy protected” magnet logo on the back of the case. In my tests I was able to copy the CSS encrypted DVDs Th e Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and Spider-Man 2.
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