copy protected media

[nepal]

A friend has just lent me a couple of Pride DVDs but I notice they are
marked with a CP symbol and I cannot watch either of these DVDs, they
do something weird and skip to the end of the disk.

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and I've tried a few different players, vlc,
mplayer, moovida, even Totem which never works properly and doesn't for
this either.

Is this the new state of affairs for media? I can be legally sold
useless media, media that will not play in my standard piece of kit?

It certainly doesn't seem to be making me want to go and spend money of
packaged media...


nepal