[MPlayer-users] Playing proprietary DivX?

[Bradley M Alexander]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:22:48PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Wed 12 Jun, Bradley M Alexander made the following spurious claims:
> 
> > Got a question about playing the old proprietary-format DivX
> 
> That Divx is not at all related to the modern DiVX.  It was a "pay per
> view" distribution system where they would give you the disc and you
> would have to pay for a decryption in order to view the content.  They
> went broke a coupla years ago.
> 
> No idea if anyone managed to break the crypto but if you're in the
> USA, that would be illegal, right?

It would be an interesting situation, since the company no longer exist.
The other side of the coin is that my friend bought a number of them and
was never able to view them. 

I would think this would be something along the lines of orphanware...Of
course, IANAL...Nor do I play one on TV.

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