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At least one recent release of the VLC media player software is able to read video and audio data from DVDs that incorporate Content Scramble System ( CSS ) encryption, even though the VLC media player software lacks a CSS decryption license.

The unauthorized decryption of CSS-encrypted DVD content and / or the unauthorized distribution of CSS decryption tools may violate the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, although the decryption of CSS-encrypted DVD content has been temporarily authorized for certain purposes ( such as documentary filmmaking that uses short portions of DVD content for criticism and / or commentary ) under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anticircumvention exemptions that were issued by the US Copyright Office in 2010.

( These exemptions do not change the DMCA's ban on the distribution of CSS decryption tools.