Saddly most of our politicians here in the states want to push thier laws (Made by the MPAA and RIAA padding thier wallets), to other countries. Look at Dmitry Skylarov from ElcomSoft in Russia, locked up for violation of the DMCA because of a program he wrote and spoke about in the states. And IIRC, possession of a device or technology that (with out authorization) breaches digital security methods is against the DMCA. RKDavies Textbox Networks On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 03:07, oeren@ykb.com wrote:
Well, i don't think i installed anything illegal. At least i didn't install any rpm named deCSS. I only installed 5 rpm's of MPlayer : Mplayer-common, MPlayer, MPlayer-default font, MPlayer-gui, and MPlayer-default skin. And i installed them from the cd of Gelecek Linux, which is a completely legal linux distribution here in Turkey.
Xine said it won't play Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, because it's encrypted. But Mplayer played it. I don't know if it's really encrypted or not. Anyway, i'm a newbie.
What has mr. ashcroft or any other person to do with my butt? I'm not living in US, but they're welcome in Istanbul. When i subscribed this list as a newbie, i never thought i could hear any thing like that..
Marino Fernandez
: I've had the same problem with Xine. It says Xine doesn't and will never play encrypted dvd's, because it's illegal.
What is illegal is playing encrypted DVD using and open source algorythm (according to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act)... because the decryption program is open source... anybody can look at the algorithm (CSS) and crack it... defeating the purpose of encrypting the file (what ever that is). People cracked the CSS algorithm anyway and came up with deCSS; but this program is not legal... this is the illegal part.
Any program in linux that plays encrypted DVD has that decrypting program (deCSS)... It does not matter if it is Ogle or Mplayer or Xine... if it uses decss (or however you want to call it) is illegal...
So why worry; get ogle, Mplayer and xine, and the appropiate plugins amd see for yourself... Linux is about choices, and this 3 programs and their plugins are freely available and work well in SuSE.
And Oguz, if your Mplayer plays encrypted DVD, is already illegal in the USA... so watch out, John Ashcroft already wants your butt!!
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