Re: xine dvd support 9.1
Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.multimedia |
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| Organization | Ptilopteri in Pandemonium |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
* Marc van Munnen <[email protected]> [11-14-04 08:53]: > For Xine with CSS-unscrambling you may also look here: > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ > It's just al legal question. MS has paid the huge licence-fee, and SuSE > did not because (I presume) it's too expensive. So officially it may be > illegal to watch your DVD's at your pc with Linux. Watching DVDs is *not* illegal as such, just as being a passenger in a automobile which is speeding is not illegal. Software allowing the defeat of encryption methods to protect proprietary property is illegal, aiui, but I am not sure whether it is the software itself or the use of the software. disclaimer: IANAL -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos