On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:12 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> It is a nice machine. It picked it up on Saturday night and am
> modifying it for my talks at SLUUG on Wednesday and Thursday (it does
> bioinformatics just fine, too):
>
> http://sluug.org/
>
> I'll restore it to original form and drop it off at the shop again on
> Friday night or Saturday morning. For folks to play with.
Robert, I have a question about your gOS machine. From the Ubuntu web
site: "Unfortunately, DVD support cannot be provided by default in
Ubuntu due to legal and technical restrictions." Specifically, they are
talking about the required libdvdread3 script, install-css.sh ...
Using that library, and that script, in order to play a DVD on my Ubuntu
computer is probably illegal here in Amurika. Even though I bought the
DVD, the computer, and the DVD player.
How is your gOS machine getting around this legal issue? You said it
plays DVDs. What player is it using? What codecs? And how is it
managing to do this without falling foul of the DMCA?
Thanks,
t.
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