* Quoting Daniel Burrows (dburrows@debian.org): > you are circumventing them. An unlicensed DVD player without a "rip" or > "copy" option is still illegal here because it has to bypass the > market-protection mechanisms of the MPAA, even though it can't actually be > used for copyright infringement. Not all DVDs are CSS-encrypted. Playing non-encrypted DVDs isn't violating the DMCA. - Rolf