[geeks] Walgreens software, was Quicktime 7 Pro missing stuff?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Jeff Cole wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:45:17AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > Made by the same guy who brought you DeCSS :) It'll play everything
> > > including PAL DVD images without having to install any other codecs. I
> > > love it, and it runs on any platform you can compile it on.
> > 
> > And for all those reasons, some suit is probably trying to have it shut
> > down and people sued.
> 
> Well, good luck with that. The DVD CCA sued hium over DeCSS, but, they
> dropped their suit in 2004. Turns out that their encryption was so weak,
> a home computer could brute force it in 24 hours. I don't remember
> exactly why the suit was dropped, but, I think it had something to do
> with the inability of the DVD CCA to prove that he'd actually done
> anything wrong.

I thought it was dropped because the principle players and citizens of
countries that don't have any laws again doing that.  Didn't DeCSS come
out of Norway?