Aubin Paul wrote:
> It's completely foolish, but your fair use rights are overridden by
> the prohibition against circumventing copy protection. Audio CDs have
> no copy protection, so you're not circumventing anything, hence fair
> use takes over.
They are testing copy protected audio cds in Germany right now. I bet
until the end they have the same in Canada for all new stuff.
> The main thing is that I don't think Freevo should ever include the
> vobcopy binary with dvdcss support, but just point you to where you
> can get it if you're in the (increasingly few) countries where it's
> allowed.
Don't ship anything with Freevo that may be illegal. I'm also not
happy with the mplayer shipped with Freevo, because this mplayer
contains DeCSS and in 3 days for now, it's illegal in Germany to
distribute software that can bypass copyprotection. [1]. Yes, we in
Germany beat you guys in America in this point of stupidity :-(
Dischi
Footnotes:
[1] This law is very stupid, and I hope it will change back. I buy a
DVD, I buy a DVD-ROM, but I'm not allowed to watch my DVD with
mplayer.
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It contained -- according to the Thing -- everything and nothing. And there
was very little everything and more nothing than anyone could imagine.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Wings)
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