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Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r
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Have you got ANY ACTUAL facts to back this up ?
FYI DVD playing on linux is a grey area and basically the MPAA has given up its efforts on TRYING to prosecute linux users due to losses like this :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3341211.stm
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Do you always just give up if a newly installed program doesn't quite do what you want it do do on Windows ?. For the record I actually don't watch DVDs on Linux but tried it yesterday and yes the default player, like the default player in windows -wmp, was crap and so I installed something else.
I mean why don't YOU use windows media player for playing DVDs ?
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I tried Wine and others, a real pain installing library after library, hunting through forums to try and find how to get everything to work, which it eventually did, but playback was poor in all the players I tried.
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Originally Posted by c1rcle
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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The point is the players aren't legally capable of playing encrypted DVDs
Think of it like this, just because you can get in a car, turn it on and head down the street, if you don't have a license to do it, you can't do it legally.
Now if someone were to tell you how to circumvent the encryption so you can play encrypted DVD's without a license through this forum, technically that'd be encouraging and aiding others to breach copyright (we're not in Norway).