New Copyright law implications for DVD on Linux?

George Standish george.standish at gmail.com
Fri Jun 4 03:27:59 UTC 2010


CBC's Article title "Copyright bill would ban breaking digital locks"
at http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/02/copyright-bill-clement-montreal.html

Would this make DVD playback on linux illegal?

As dvdcss2 (also installed using libdvdread4) from Medibuntu would
probably qualify as "breaking" the DVD encryption lock.

If this is in fact the case, the Ubuntu/Linux communities in Canada
need to speak out!

Can someone confirm/deny my suspicion?




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