canonical to sell proprietary codecs!

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 16:19 +1000, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:34:51 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
> > Scott wrote:
> 
> > > Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
> > >> w32codecs are illegal.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > I'm not a professional in law, but I'm pretty sure it is only
> illegal in
> 
> > > certain countries. I highly doubt w32codecs is illegal in all
> countries.
> 
> >
> 
> > I never said it was illegal in all countries.
> 
> Well actually you pretty much did.
> 
> > w32codecs are illegal.  Canonical's codecs will be like Opera (which
> 
> > they already distribute), legal but proprietary.  Pick your
> poison...
> 
> Without specifying a country than the only assumption is you mean
> international.

Seemed that way to me, as well. I doubt that the jackboots are gonna
kick in my door, here in the US, over some codecs any way. But, the
underlying technology to playback/recording of encrypted DVD's and MP3's
is patented. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2005-10/msg00222.html is
a good intelligent and brief review on that topic. While it's illegal as
heck to run a red light, you can run them all day long ...until you're
caught and prosecuted and the law becomes enforced. Using OGG is really
the best bet all around. Then we screw the bozo's. No one needs
libdvdcss2 as long as no one buys encrypted DVD's? Making a point to
tell the artists about that is about all else that you can do. The
pendulum aways swings. I think I'll fire off an email to Bono and
Sting. :) Ric

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