Re: Help: DVDs players and Linux

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On 20 Aug 2001 18:37:25 -0300, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote:
> On Aug 13 2001, Rogério Brito wrote:
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> 	(BTW, as a side comment, both of my posts to this list
> 	regarding DVDs in the last month received almost no responses,
> 	a very curious fact -- is it an indication that people are not
> 	using DVDs with Linux? Why? Aren't people satisfied with the
> 	results?)
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Maybe because playing it can get you in jail. ;-)

DVD playing is perhaps one area where the hacker/cracker distinction
(which I myself don't believe in) falls apart. Playing most DVDs in
Linux is ILLEGAL.(That, however, shouldn't stop you.)

For most brainless Hollywood movies VCD's are just fine.