Just out of curiousity, is this still the case if one uses one of the open source players (such as vlc or mplayer) on Mac OS X ?
Thanks vinai On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, christophe barbe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > > ... > > > > Linux players do not ask for the key (they are not licensed and then > > do not have the keys to speak to the drive about this), they crack it > > every time you want to read your DVD. That is the whole point of > > DeCSS. > > > > So, do not bother to flash your DVD drive if you are just using > > Linux. > > Thanks for the clarification. > > So no reason to flash the drive, we have a lot of very good Free DVD > players. > > Christophe > > -- > Christophe Barb� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > L'experience, c'est une connerie par jour mais jamais la m�me. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >

