On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:41:53PM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > >Well, xmms source had mp3 support removed. > > > > > Different issue AFAICT. The mp3 protocol is under different rules and > there are different patent/copyright issues involved. > > NTFS is a filesystem that can be read by anything that can read raw data > from the disk (all filesystems contain data on the disk so this is no > surprise). How it is handled is the subject of their proprietary > software, and anybody can freely develop the code to read the data, and > even write it (if you ignore the metadata). However, 'how' the data is > read is by handling the raw data from the disk. Even the linux NTFS > modules are still listed as experimental and the last time I checked > were 'read only'. As I understand it, the metadata for the filesystem > which contains the filesystem permissions, access lists, etc., is the > really tough stuff to handle and so NTFS as it is used by linux does not > utilize the metadata files, but rather ignores that stuff. > > If I understand correctly, reading the data is not illegal. Writing it > *using techniques that would not hose the filesystem* is the tough (and > possibley illegal) part, because it would have to utilize the same > metadata management as used by M$. Well, the ntfs-kernel page @ sourceforge only has read support and write to already allocated blocks (it doesn't touch metadata). So in that case I don't see the problem. :) Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
