RH10 multimedia support

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Sun Sep 7 19:00:29 UTC 2003


On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:24:15AM -0700, Joe wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> >Maybe it's time someone with some money in one of the banks took this
> >risk. Drew the fire of the RIAA/MPAA and fought the case not against a
> >piracy claim but against a legitimate use of decss to VIEW dvds on a
> >non-windows,non-macintosh platform.
> >  
> >
> That's what I want to see - and that's my real concern, not the 
> difficulty of installing multimedia support. Skulking around under this 
> cloud of doubt can be quite tiresome, I'd love to have it out in the 
> open and have it decided that, yes, I can legally view the DVDs I've 
> purchased.

  So the law need fixing ? Well here the way we get it changed is put
pressure on the political system to try to have it changed. This may
not work in the US, but that's how democracies are supposed to function,
aren't they ? Honnestly, suggesting to use a lawsuit to fix a breakage
in law sounds really bizarre from here.

Daniel

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