Ken Hough wrote:
JB wrote:
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 14:46, Sid Boyce wrote:
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Our politicians know prostitution is illegal, but they also know that no one in recent history has been prosecuted for the offence
In what city is this so? What cites is this reckoned?
I know that you're just being facetious (hopefully), but this should have never been answered here...including my own post here - but i'm lit as the fourth of july so I get to have an ecsue.
How much longer are we to be subjected to these sad and irrelevant comments? They have nothing to do with Linux and IMHO reflect badly on the senders.
Please, let's get back to meaningful and helpful discussion/comment
Ken Hough
It's like this, someone was obviously and perhaps quite understandably miffed with the inability to play DVD's on his SuSE 10.0 latest greatest, so in my first response, I pointed out that the movie studios with the full backing of the DMCA law passed by their paid help and the equivalent law in Deutschland made it impossible for SuSE to offer that capability as they are answerable to both jurisdictions. If anyone has followed the history of these troubles, they would remember the arrest of Jon Johannson (DVD Jon) in Denmark for providing libdvdcss so making it possible to view DVD's under Linux, likewise, there was a court case in the USA resulting in a ruling that it was illegal to view DVD's under Linux and outlawing websites from carrying libdvdcss or linking to it. The guys Stateside went to court with the code written on their tee shirts, guys put the code on websites as a spoken voice file or as a song as they are entitled to by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the RIAA also chased sites that had libdvdcss with cease and desist orders, but gave up after many sites carried a file with the same name, but contained nothing to do with DVD decoding. I suppose facetous just about covers my comments in my followup posting indicating that such bad and draconian laws are the result of politicians prostituting their services to deprive citizens of rights they hitherto had. Remember that if you have the ability to view encrypted DVD's under Linux, you are breaking the law the RIAA lobbied for and got enacted and all citizens wanted to do was to be able to play a DVD they bought legitimately on their PC's just the same as friends, relatives and colleagues running Windows, nothing less, nothing more - the really sad and hurting situation we face as Linux users. Here endeth the historical lesson -- MY FINAL, FINAL! as we say in hamradio. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks