libdvdcss

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On Tuesday 30 May 2006 10:46 am, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op ma, 29-05-2006 te 07:28 +0100, schreef Anders Karlsson:
> > So if one
> > decides to adhere to the law (forgetting moral aspects or civil
> > disobedience yadda yadda) - there is no legal way to play DVD movies
> > from CSS scrambled media on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu or otherwise).
>
> Wrong.
>
> Linspire and some other distros already have legal DVD-support, and
> Fluendo is working on (non-free, non-gratis) legal DVD-playing-support
> for Ubuntu and other distros.

There's no legal way to do it *for free*.  The encryption was broken in 
violation of the DMCA, and to decrypt it legally you must use software whose 
vendors have acquired a license to decrypt the media.  As I understand it, 
that's not possible to include in freely redistributable software (like 
Ubuntu).

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