[MPlayer-users] Request for assistance, playing my HD-DVD movies

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 22 February 2009 at 03:01, Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > Fact is, nobody has ever in history of mankind EVER been arrested or
> > sued for being in their home, for backing up (i.e. 'ripping'), or playing
> > a movie they owned 
> 
> Just because you don't get caught it doesn't make it legal.  Most cops are 
> more interested in fighting actual crimes instead of arresting people for 
> watching DVDs with mplayer, but the RIAA would much rather they arrest mplayer 
> users :-)
> 
> According to the DMCA it's illegal to possess code that can circumvent copy 
> protection, which is exactly what mplayer has to do in order to play a DVD.

Possess, no. Distribute, yes.

Regards,
R.

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