mplayer vs. xine

Michel Alexandre Salim salimma at fastmail.fm
Wed Feb 4 16:26:44 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 18:55 +0530, Arvind Narayanan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:23:04PM -0500, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> [snip] 
> > However, distributing proprietary packages without having a license 
> > to distribute them would be a violation of international copyrights, 
> > which is a criminal offense in most of the civilized world. As long 
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^
> Is the implication intentional?
> Just curious.
> 
Well, that statement is not offensive. Even in backwater Indonesia we
have copyright laws, so it's a criminal offense to distribute without a
license. It's just .. ahem.. the implementation of those laws that leave
much to be desired.

- Michel
* looking over his shoulder *
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