[MPlayer-users] Can mplayer support HD-DVD?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 06 February 2007 at 16:47, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2/6/07, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Feb 6, 2007, at 06.57, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 06 February 2007 at 04:35, RC wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 01:08:39 +0100
> >>> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Then again, libdvdcss is illegal in the US, too.
> >>>
> >>> Actually, it isn't.
> >>
> >> Do you have some evidence beside your word?
> >
> >Hmm, wasn't there some reason that libdvdcss WASN'T being distributed
> >with Ubuntu... ;)
> 
> I think the reason is that it allows to find the key with brute force,
> while a libdvdcss that would depend on being given a legitimate decode
> key would be okay.

DMCA criminalizes circumventing technical protection measures, which is
exactly what libdvdcss does, as well as creating and distributing tools for
that purpose.

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/unintended_consequences.php

Regards,
R.

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