On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:31:17AM +0200, Andreas Simon wrote:
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:54, Pascal Bleser wrote:
So, to summarize: libdvdcss2 is (L)GPL, but infringes patents because they break the conditions by which you are allowed to play encrypted DVDs.
Apart from any patents libdvdcss2 circumvents a copy-protection of music data media. The ownership, distribution, or usage of such copy-protection circumventions is also illegal in some countries due to the law on copyright (You already made the example of the german c't magazine which got sued because of a mere hyperlink to such a circumvention).
Apperently I was not clear in what I wanted to say. What I wanted to say is if there is a LEGAL solution as in a company is able to sell something like libdvdcss in the same way as it is done for XP, it is better to have that as a solution for the whole of Linux, not just for SUSE users. The problem is simple, they don't want to sell it, so they make it so difficult so they can legaly say they are willing to sell. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html