On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> I don't think it currently can be done, legally that is. This is because the
> developers of any DVD player must pay royalties to the DVD copyright owners
> (I can't remember what the consortium's name is). This rules out the
> possibility of a legal open source DVD player. AFAIK, DeCSS is the only
> programme capable of playing DVDs in Linux. This is why DeCSS was banned by
> the US courts, and why it received so much attention from sites like Wired
> and ZDnet. Just be warned that it is illegal to own or use it.
Maybe it is in some backwards former Colonies <VBG>, but certainly not
everywhere; I just received the source of DeCSS printed in a Brazilian
magazine.
Sites that
> link to it are violating US law (e.g. 2600.com were ordered to remove all
> links to it and I think they were sued), so you'll probably have a hard time
> finding it.
So what ! Thank God US law does not yet rule the whole world
(although at times it sees to want to do so ;-(
You should be able to find the code; if not, I can scan and send you the
magazine article.
Cheers,
Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
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