On Monday June 23 2003 05:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 23 Jun 2003 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > mplayer, tho not full featured (questionable legal issues) > > is on your CD's. The full featured Mandrake, an probly illegal, > > ones you can get from http://plf.zarb.org/ > Surely it's only illegal in 'the land of the free'? (and maybe > one or two other places where the Prime Minister has a brownish > tongue) > > Paul M. They're retry'n a boy (was at the time) in Norway, after he'd already been acquitted (DeCSS) .. that'd never happen in the USA. Once it's a done deal, it's a done deal here. No double jeopardy. Seems API (codecs) hijacking, reverse engineering, CSS, etc., is illegal in France too, most of Europe, all the way to south of the equator, America's, Asia, Africa, and Australia, NZ ... the various legal repercussions of which Mandrake can neither afford or want to even try an' deal with. Probly the most Draconian software limitations exist in Northern Europe. Sweden's fixin to outlaw everything as far as user free rights and access to proprietary software (ie, illegal to even d/l, a pending law, but close to passing). What's not on the block for oulawin, is heavily taxed. The only places to not cross paths with copyright holders and such, is where everything is not un-legal or unchallenged (ie, lawless, no lawyers or politicians). Antarctica? Syria? Iran? N. Korea? ... Anyhow, my only point was the software is available, suitable for a Mandrake system ... just not officially from Mandrake. Not supported either, but only for _world wide_ legal reasons. It is designed and compatible with Mandrake tho. The rpms will install properly in the right places, and add a menu entry ;) Use of generic or other distro rpms or tarballs will probly fsck'up somethin. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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