Ken, Basil, On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:43, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 17:04 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
How is it possible in this year 2005 for an installed piece of software in SuSE to be crippleware so that it is not able to play DVDs?
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Search on the packman site (found using google) for libdvdcss and you will find instructions for installing it.
Not for the past few months. To wit (from http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=122): -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- "Description: "Now, the new copyright in germany is coming into force, it's no longer allowed to provide tools to breake technical protections. "Therefore we can no longer provide libdvdcss, sorry." -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Don't be fooled by the RPM linked from that page. It includes only the ".spec" file. The link to the project's home page is still good: http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html. Now, I don't support software patents, but there's at least a little irony in this (from the libdvdcss home page): -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- "Features ... * Freedom. libdvdcss is released under the General Public License, ensuring it will stay free, and used only for free software products." -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- The authors seem to want the protection of the legal system while not wanting to abide by the laws that deem their software illegal in so many countries...
-- Ken Schneider
Randall Schulz