Yes, many Linux distros do have a DVD player app, normally Xine.
They will not, in my experience, play a commercial, copy protected DVD
unless one installs DeCSS.
Lee
Curt Raymond wrote:
Not true at all, many Linux distros have a DVD player app built right in.
Also not true for .mp3 files.
I believe you mean the MPAA, the RIAA is the music industry.
Frankly while I'm not in love with the MPAA in any sense what Andrew had described is illegal for a reason. Its sensible that you shouldn't be allowed to copy a rented movie, if you could easily do that why would you ever buy one? The same is doubly true of rented computer (and especially Playstation) games.
DVD producers are in business to make money, they don't put out disks just
because they love doing it. When companies cease to make money they cease to be
companies then then no new DVDs get produced. So some level of protection makes
sense.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:08:49 -0700
From: Lee Einer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Linux, I believe it is verboten to even have the software to play
the
DVDs, as DeCSS descrambles the encryption code.
Ridiculous, as I should have a right to view DVDs I own on a PC or
laptop which I own.
The RIAA and their thugs are so nazi-like about this, and the US courts
so whipped, that one group even got sued for printing the DeCSS source
code on tee shirts.
Lee
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