[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:51:28PM +0200, VMiklos wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Diego Biurrun wrote:
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> > Watching DVDs under Linux has IMHO never been illegal.
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> I don't know, but...
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> from http://movix.sourceforge.net/Docs/eMoviX/countries/en/main.html
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> "    *  IMPORTANT DVD NEWS *** Because of the DeCSS legal problems, this
> eMoviX version cannot read encrypted DVDs unless you add by your own the
> libdvdcss.so library to the distro.

libdvdcss has nothing to do with decss. decss contains warezed keys
from a reverse engineered player. libdvdcss doesn't include any keys;
it just breaks the (very weak) crypto itself.

As far as I know, no court has ever made a ruling against libdvdcss.

Rich