The Tech:I run Linux on my computer. There’s no product I can buy that’s licensed to watch [DVDs]. If I go to Blockbuster and rent a movie and watch it, am I a bad person? Is that bad?
Jack Valenti: No, you’re not a bad person. But you don’t have any right.
The Tech: But I rented the movie. Why should it be illegal?
Jack Valenti: Well then, you have to get a machine that’s licensed to show it.
The Tech: Here’s one of these machines; it’s just not licensed.
[Winstein shows Valenti his six-line “
qrpff” DVD descrambler.]
The Tech: If you type that in, it’ll let you watch movies.
Jack Valenti: You designed this?
The Tech: Yes.
Jack Valenti: Un-fucking-believable.
Via
slashdot, here's an
interview Jack Valenti did with an
MIT student
newspaper.