Breezy mirrormax repo?
Oliver Grawert
ogra at ubuntu.com
Sun Sep 25 13:37:32 UTC 2005
Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2005, 14:57 +0200 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker:
> On zo, 2005-09-25 at 14:41 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
> > > And neither having or spreading libdvdcss seems to be illegal.
> > that heavily depends on the laws of your country, in many countries
> > circumventing copy protection mechanisms is illegal now. as long as
> > jurisdictions of countries agree that CSS is a copy protection (which is
> > plainly wrong imho) you will be outlawed in these countries by using
> > _and_ spreading it...
>
> libdvdcss does not circumvent css...
>
> DeCSS does that and ubuntu does provide an installer for that.
indeed i meant decss with the above, sorry for the confusion ;)
> How does this add up??
ask a lawyer, i'm all for wiping the installer script from the package
since it brings the user and us in a leaglly grey area ...
ciao
oli
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