[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:24:16AM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:01:41 +0300, Jonathan Nell wrote:
> >I juist don't think it's very fair that Linux users cannot view their
> >legal discs (which they paid for) in their legal drives (which they
> >paid for)! What are your thoughts?
> 
> i would submit the whole thing anonymously, much how decss was. dvdjon
> was the only public name (out of three) on that code, and you see what
> it got him.

Sorry, but your legal paranoia is - once again - completely baseless.

What DeCSS got Jon was

- DVD playback on his Linux box,
- a sense of personal accomplishment,
- worldwide fame,
- invitations for public speaking,
- an excellent salary in his dream profession: reverse engineering,

and last but not least

- getting sued and seeing his enemies (and the enemies of freedom) have
  their asses whipped in court.

All of this was before Linux was a billion dollar business and free legal
support from good lawyers was available for free to free software devs.

Please don't continue spreading your baseless fears.  Some people are
less well informed and might actually believe they are for real...

Diego