[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

salsaman at xs4all.nl salsaman at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 1 20:39:00 UTC 2007


> salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>> Indeed. Or what about people using 64 bit Linux ? Or what about when M$
>> create the next version of .wmv, and start suing people for decoding it
>> ?
>
> VLC runs under 64 bit linux, too.

Then it must be using different decoders than mplayer. FFmpeg uses wine
for its win32 codecs. Those codecs don't work under 64 bit wine.


>Reverse engineering is perfectly legal.

Only until Microsoft uses encryption to encode the files. Then it falls
under DMCA/EUCD laws.



Gabriel.


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