libdvdcss

[Anders Karlsson]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 17:46 +0200, 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.
> 

I was unaware of that. Is the Linspire solution a "grab a Windows player
and make it run in Wine" effort, or a proper native piece of software?

It will be interesting to see how long Fluendo's effort flies.
Considering the mentality of many Linux users, a la "libdvdcss exists so
why should I pay for a DVD Player program", I wonder how Fluendo thought
they'd make money on this venture.

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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