VideoLAN Announces libaacs 105
supersloshy writes "VideoLAN, makers of the well-known media player VLC, have just announced a new project called libaacs. The libaacs library's intention is to provide a free software library to implement the AACS specification, the copy-protection found on things such as Blu-ray discs. Note that this isn't meant to actually be a decoding library. It includes no AACS keys and is solely developed for research purposes."
One small error (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry guys. I submitted this article before I realized this. libaacs has been around for a while and was a project started at Doom9. It was just adopted by VideoLAN. My bad!
Re:Without the keys, it's 1201(g) (Score:1, Informative)
VideoLAN is in France.
Re:Translation of research exception in the law (Score:3, Informative)
Small correction, the last part of the translation should be:
(I misread an "en" as an "et".)
Re:Which "intellectual property"? (Score:5, Informative)
And the EFF has some bad-ass lawyers. I know one EFF lawyer, who spoke to a local group here in Chicago back in the Spring, who's been offered jobs by two industry groups. I guess they figured they'd rather be paying him a salary than facing him in court. He was an interesting guy. He'd made some dough doing mergers or something before joining the EFF and didn't seem to be phased by the dangling carrot. He was also an extremely persuasive speaker. I could understand why someone like the RIAA wouldn't want to meet him in front of a judge.
Re:They should improve the interface (Score:2, Informative)
So why are you telling us instead of Videolan? Nobody here wants to hear this crap. Go [videolan.org] tell someone who cares (Videolan).