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[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Thursday 10 June 2010, Brian Wootton wrote:
> On 10/06/10 13:07, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > Assuming those are windows apps: I'm unwilling to get windows
> > just to be able to copy a DVD, especially when ripping them in
> > linux is easy when using mplayer, k9copy or k3b.
> > 
> >> >  This is also great for rented movies because you can rent a
> >> >  bunch, copy, return disks, watch one a week for a while,
> >> >  erasing as you go, and then rent more.
> >> >  
> >> >  Bending the law in your country? Yes, but then so is using
> >> >  CSS.
> > 
> > How's using CSS bending german law?
> 
> Or any other country, Reinhold! I'm not really interested in
> cluttering up my HDs with ripped videos, all I want to do is play
> paid for rented dvd movies on my computer - if that requires CSS
> then so be it. I can't think there can be many judges who would
> rule that any-one couldn't play media they had paid for.

That's not *using* CSS, that's watching CSS-encumbered material. In 
Germany, this is illegal as the CSS "encryption" first has to be 
cracked.

  --Reinhold