2012/3/11 Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:16:47AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 03:53:18AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:39:13AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:00:30AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > Your complaint, then, is against those who use the law to restrict > > > > > your > > > > > use of your legally-acquired DVD or Blu-Ray disc and disingenuously > > > > > call > > > > > it “protection”. It is misdirected against the Debian project. > > > > > > > > In other words, until non-US comes back, d-m.o can't go away. > > > > > > I think this demonstrates a lack of understanding about non-US. non-US > > > was for things that could be legally used everywhere, but could not be > > > *exported* from the US without serious hassle. non-US was *not* for > > > things which could not legally be used in the US. > > > > Old non-US did, yeah. The new need for geographically limited distribution > > has different rules. > > > > > And I would like to point out, for the record, that it is not only the > > > US that has stupid laws. Yes, we certainly have more than our share, > > > but, for example, Germany has stupid laws that prevent certain video > > > games from being played, > > > > Yet I don't see [Free]Doom excluded from Debian while decss is. That's the > > big difference here. > > > > > and Australia also has stupid video game laws that could be interpreted as > > > being binding against Debian. > > > > And Debian carries, say, Nethack, which has a sex scene (several lines of > > text, but still...). > > > > > I'm sure that every country has laws which are problematic; don't blame it > > > all on the US. > > > > When the totem law of Kbanga declares that displaying any words with two > > consonant clusters is illegal on Fridays, the rest of the world doesn't > > suffer. Being able to pop in a DVD and play it is something an average > > person takes for granted. If oppressive laws in a single country stop a > > good part of multimedia functionality, why should that functionality be > > taken away from everyone else? > > The problem is: decss is illegal in very much more than just the US. > This is a very different situation.
Orly? Do you know of any law and/or court case backing this assertion? Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabwz6oshbjeuhedgk8rlm7eatw71f-7a+wwuuzo+iuhl8tq...@mail.gmail.com