Jochen Schulz wrote: > That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer, > you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed > descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like > libdvdcss. The latter may be illegal in some countries. But at least > here in Germany, where I think it is technically illegal, I have never > heard of someone being brought to court for using libvdvdcss.
Where did you get this information? I don't think that it is illegal to play a legally obtained copy of a DVD in Germany or within the EU [1]. Cheers, Johannes [1] And I think that this explains why no-one has been reported to be sued for it: it is not against the law!. (Despite the FUD launched by companies with vested interests in increasing their sales.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org