legality

[Chris Davies]

On 30/04/2011 15:01, Jon Davies wrote:
 > Listing a whole pile of stream sources in an unencrypted file cannot
 > possibly be "effective" under the definition in the act.  So reading
 > and interpreting that file, and selecting a stream from it, cannot
 > possibly be a violation of the Copyright act.

Under that same reasoning, the reading of "encrypted" rtmp streams could 
also be acceptable under law. But I get the clear feeling that it's not 
just the US DMCA that treats such attempts as illegal but also the 
not-quite-the-same-honest-guv equivalents under European law.

Chris