Are there other software packages besides DeCSS available for decrypting DVD movies, and if so, is the MPAA attacking them as well?
There are no legal software packages available for decrypting DVDs. OpenLaw’s answer to the question: OpenLaw’s answer to the MPAA: The MPAA would love this to be true. Unfortunately for them, people (and companies) have the right to reverse engineer products. Without this reverse-engineering, the free market economy could not survive. All indications are that the CSS algorithm was legitimately reverse-engineered – a fact which makes DeCSS a perfectly legal software packages. The MPAA would like you to believe that “Circumvention” (as defined in the DMCA) is the same as “Using any CSS program other than the one they sell”. The purchase of the DVD itself does grant one specific rights – usually the right for “Home Viewing Only”. Since viewing a DVD in one’s home is impossible without decrypting the CSS encryption first, the right to decrypt CSS has to be passed on to the DVD owner. Since the authority for CSS decrytion is provided to you by the copyright owner “for home viewing”, you ar
