Media Players

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>    Unless they get the necessary library offshore I think Dell would be
> worried about the movie lawyers visiting. I really think they supply
> Totem and it is broken just like it was on Hardy. Yesterday I went to
> the offshore site and got the library and it works just fine. Why does
> Ubuntu use Totem? VLC works so much better!

VLC is better than Totem for playing a wide variety of video formats
and DVD with menus.  The library for decrypting the copy-protection of
commercial DVD movies is what needs to be downloaded from offshore.
There should be a small app under the Administration menu for
installing commercial DVD playback and MP3 playback easily with the
click of a button.  A popup window could come up saying that it might
not be legal in all countries and that Conical isn't responsible ..
blah blah blah ... so that people can "easily" enable features on
Ubuntu which should already be installed.  This problem is one of the
key reasons why intellectual property laws in the United States need
to change.  The DMCA is unconstitutional, gives corporations too much
power over consumers, and is widely abuse to suppress legitimate
competition.  It is a law that should never have been passed.

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