You can't sell it with the logo without licencing it, or advertise it as a DVD Player, as both are protected under trademark law (The logo and DVD).
You certainly can make & sell one. There is legal, GPL licensed code available to do the decoding of the copy protection, although you'd probably get sued by the DVD consortium for using it (Copy Protection by way of expensive lawyers). You'd still need to pay the MPEG codec owners money to use their patented codec to decode the actual video though (All DVD video is MPEG-2 encoded). -Adam Norm Baugher wrote: > I can put one together in my garage and sell it to my fucking neighbor - > what violation of the law am I committing and what agreements am I breaking? > Norm > (Hell is the impossibility of reason...) > > J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> NOPE, I am pretty sure if you want to commercially sell >> DVD players you have to get a licensing agreement. >> Ever see that little "DVD" logo? Guess what that means.. >> jco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Norm Baugher >> >> >> If I make a DVD player, I don't have to agree to shit. I can sell it to >> whoever the hell I want to. >> Norm >> (who believes some people slept in and missed the day they taught logic) >> >> J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> >>> I disagree because there are DVD hardware >>> and software licensing issues and these >>> region codings issues are part of those >>> licensing AGREEMENTS. >>> jco >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >>> Of Mark Roberts >>> >>> Tom C wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I don't think it's a legal issue. It's an issue of how the industry >>>> has decided to market to us. >>>> >>>> >>> This is true. The movie industry has convinced the makers of DVD >>> players to cooperate with the "region" scheme (for the most part), and >>> >> >>> likewise the major retailers, because they need each other to a large >>> extent. >>> >>> The convergent interests of these organizations make it beneficial for >>> them to follow the region code scheme. >>> >>> Smaller businesses like world-import.com are willing to forego the >>> cooperation of the movie industry so they're free to sell multi-region >>> >> >>> players. >>> >>> The law doesn't enter into it. >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
