[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Commandline switch to enable/disable DVD protection

[Krister Lagerstrom]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Krister Lagerstrom writes:
>  > My motivation for this flag is to be able to distribute a binary
>  > version of MPlayer that hopefully will be legal in all/most countries
>  > as far as DVD protection is concerned. The flag can be used in wrapper
>  > programs for MPlayer. It could then be removed by the users who live in
>  > countries where it is legal to play and backup protected DVDs using
>  > mplayer/mencoder (e.g. Norway, land of the free :-).
> 
> Couldn't this still be called a circumvention device under the DMCA?
> I doubt that this option achieves what you wish for..

Well, it is a lot better than nothing. Any better ideas are very
welcome. The alternative to doing something like this is to remove
libmpdvdkit2 completely from the Freevo binary distro and have all the
Freevo newbies (~10k downloads/month) come to mplayer-users and ask for
help on compiling mplayer...

		/ Krister