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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Because a license to decrypt the DVD is not included in the price of the DVD.
The DVD player under your TV, PowerDVD and WinDVD etc on your XP box, have all paid for the ability to decrypt DVD's so they can be watched legally.
Linux being free can't pay for these licenses, so you either have to buy a linux dvd player which covers their cost of the license, or do it illegally using software which has cracked the code.
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Wouldn't that actually come under the heading of fair use? I should be able to use a DVD I've paid money for on any machine capable of playing them.
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Originally Posted by Gavin
Me too, for what it is. The trouble is with it, is that NTFS support is experimental, and I just can't risk my data on that. So using Ubuntu is kind of limited for me. Just a shame there isn't a single file system that is universal to all.
I do like the way that both Ubuntu, Mandriva and Gentoo happily recognised my NIC whereas Windows needs an additional driver off the mobo CD.
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It's actually the NTFS write support that's experimental at the moment, reading is perfectly safe, well as safe as anything to do with windows can ever be.