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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from
From:       Keith Dunwoody <kstephen () interchange ! ubc ! ca>
Date:       2003-07-31 9:13:46
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Sam Hocevar wrote:
> 
>>>   I object to this ITP. Not very strongly, but I still object.
>>
>>I think it's a wonderful idea to have a decss package in Debian. If
>>Debian cannot distribute the decss that allows Debian users to view DVD
>>movies (yet), then distributing this one is a good alternative, I'd say.
> 
> 
>    This is really no different from the RIAA uploading broken MP3s to
> P2P networks so that users think they are real music. (Disclaimer: I am
> really not a music piracy advocate, but I strongly believe that such
> behaviour has the sole effect of confusing users)
> 

Although the RIAA might confusing P2P network users as a good thing.  I would 
hope confusing debian users would be seen as a Bad Thing(tm) ;)

-- Keith


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