I suspect the licensing agreement is for software, not the DVD. If you watched the DVD in a set top DVD player, you wouldn't be cafed with the agreement, so I don't think you need to agree at all. Agreeing or not agreeing will not affect your ability to watch the DVD, just shut off autoplay on the DVD drive on your PC, and you'll never see the agreement pop up again.
In the US, this is probably illegal, but here in Canada, I think you might still be OK to do it. Take the DVD, rip it and make it into a Divx. Divx will play with Windows, Linux, Mac, etc. If you're not fussy, picture and sound will be fine (Especially if you have lots of free disk space.) Have you ever found anything that can conviently play a DVD in Linux? I haven't looked in a while. I heard that (I think it was) PowerDVD was releasing something, but I never heard of an actual release. Is there one? Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "clug talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:27 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Harry Potter DVD > Hello all, > > I just ran a Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone DVD on my windows and > when I tried to close the program it asked to either accept or reject the > installation after reading the licensing agreement. Since I want to view all > my DVD disks eventually in linux, I rejected the agreement. > > Is it a bad idea to get a DVD player working in linux and then accept the DVD > licensing agreement while playing the DVD in linux? If interactive software > in the Harry Potter DVD is incompatible with the safe running of linux if I > were to view the Harry Potter DVD in linux, then I will not accept the DVD > licensing agreement in linux. > > If it would be safe to install the software that comes from the Harry Potter > DVD in linux, I will wait until I can run DVD disks in linux before playing > the Harry Potter DVD. Then I will put in the Harry Potter DVD and install it > while in linux only after upgrading my linux to mandrake 9.0 . > > If it is not safe to install the Harry Potter DVD software in linux, then I > would not have to wait to play the Harry Potter DVD and would install the > appropriate proprietary software from the Harry Potter DVD for the > interactive program in windows. If I should keep the installation of the > proprietary interactive software in windows because it is not safe to install > in linux, then I do not have to wait for my linux upgrade, but could play the > Harry Potter DVD in windows and accept the installation into windows. > > So should I accept the Harry Potter licensing agreement in windows or should > I do so in an upgrade to linux? Is it dangerous to mix windows DVD software > and linux in that way? > > Regards, > > Michael Walters > >
