[CS-FSLUG] Another SUSE complaint

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Out of interest Fred, if it wasn't for libdvdcss what would we use to play dvds
under linux ? I assume a proprietary player ?
Is libdvdcss illegal then ?

I am about to go look up this on google as I have no idea really what
all this fuss is about. I know at face level its encryption...



On 10/16/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 5:20 pm, Nathan T. wrote:
> > Hopefully you'll forgive me for being so careful, but I don't have a job
> > any more and therefore have to be much more careful how I spend my money.
> >
> > Based on your signature I'm assuming you have a boxed set of SUSE
> > 10.0professional, I'm also going on to assume you have it installed
> > (probably
> > using it right now) and that you haven't had to manually add in libdvdcss
> > or anything else for multimedia support manually. Can you tell me if these
> > work:
>
> [snip]
>
> Ok.......here we go again. NO distro. in the US is going to furnish libdvdcss
> - PERIOD!! To do so would GUARANTEE an IMMEDIATE lawsuit!! So, NO - SUSE, nor
> Red Hat, nor any other distro. you buy OR download in the US will have it.
> You MUST go d'l it and any other libs and files that you need. Is this the
> way it should be? Obviously not, but then, DRM SHOULDN'T be allowed either.
>
> Fred
>
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