Not a bash, just the facts

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Note that most of the problems surround patents, not copyright licences,
> although some of the most painful issues surrounding DVDs are connected
> to the DMCA in the United States so SuSE may be able to circumvent some
> of those if they don't have any US mirrors.

The EU has the very similar EUCD, but it is surrounded by much
controversy, and I have never heard of it being enforced. But I might be
wrong.
http://www.fipr.org/copyright/guide/
http://ukcdr.org/issues/eucd/
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39148199,00.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/11/eu_sanctifies_copyrights_la_dmca/
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/27/2326226

Suse 9.x did not play DVDs out of the box:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t7392.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=301509

Neither did Suse 10, commercial or opensuse: