Re: Quicktime player for linux
From: cin (cinnamonraisin_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 11/18/03
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:01:23 +0100
bullethead wrote:
>
>> The de-CSS library may become harder to obtain now that both the USA and
>> Europe have DMCA-type laws, so get it while you can if you want to watch
>> the movies you've paid for!
>
> It's not really going to be harder to obtain. The internet has areas of
> the
> world where there are literally no kind of "US" laws present. At this
> moment in time I can buy Cannabis, Absinthe, and possibly even slaves from
> around the world. I wouldn't worry about obtaining de -Css in the future.
> It's really not worth the trouble at all when regular hardware dvd players
> are $39 at Best Buy. With Novell in the game (and recent "desktop"
> support) I am sure they will release a legal dvd player down the line for
> their desktop version. Lindows already does this through their
> Click'n'Run
> depository for around five bucks. It's supposedly legal when you buy a
> license for such a thing. All the lindows version is Xine with a legal
> software dvd decoder. I suspect many other distros to do the same thing
> in
> the future. It's just a matter of time before the major linux distros
> have woken up and realize that not everything for linux will be free of
> charge, they should be alright with that as well.
I for my part still feel that it is not right to restrict access to media
contents the way it is done now and will be done in future. It is a shame
for any free society to sell for cheap their freedom to a bunch of
profit-makers, not controlled by any democratic institution.
I'm talking about the scrambling of DVD content, which allows a small group
of companies to define globally (!) who should have access to DVD's
(Windows- and MAC- users, and now Lindows) and who not (the rest). But I
also talk about the upcoming DRM (Digital Rights Management) danger -
allowing for a group of (again not publicly controlled) people to control
access to media on your own PC !
This may be legal but it is definitely not right!
Watch out!
Roland
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