Right, it's not certain. But this is a semantically null statement: Unless you have a mole in the court, that could be said about any case. It's true that the appeals court asked some questions that were widely interpreted as being favorable in a followup document, but their actual questions askd during oral arguments were very much pro-MPAA. It's true that they could be playing devil's advocate, but the queries seemed to be genuine conviction, not intellectual gamesmanship. -Declan On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:14:53PM +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:53:38AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
At 07:30 PM 6/20/01 -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
The DMCA, according to the court, clearly prevents the use of DeCSS and css-auth, even in the case that it has a legitimate use, because it circumvents the access control measures built into the DVD standard.
We both know that's an incorrect ruling that will be reversed.
I covered the trial and the appeal, and I would not make such a strong claim.
Seems like the appeals court is somewhat clued, as they asked more or less the correct questions. But as you say, it is nowhere near certain that the court will rule our way.
-- LarsG