Re: deb-multimedia repository
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 16:36 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Dom writes:
> > I thought the reason that libdvdcss(2) wasn't included in the Debian
> > repos isn't because of any issues with the licensing, but because it
> > may potentially be illegal to use in some areas due to the fact the it
> > cracks copyright protection on media.
>
> It is *probably* legal in the USA for Debian to distribute it. However,
> no one wants to find out the hard way that I am wrong about that, and in
> any case it's easy to get it elsewhere.
I'm a dino from Germany, you should read what the Chaos Computer Club,
the founders are from my generation, mentioned about this topic.
No one of my generation who has to do with computers, takes care about
CSS (the DVD thingy). The German Wiki describes it as amateurish, IMO
even this is abounded.
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