On Mon 28.07.2003 at 02:41:32PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > 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.
Same in France (where I'm from) and in Finland (where I live). Or do you think about yet another Audio CD protection system? > > 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]. MPlayer, as is, is infringing patents about MPEG4 in the U.S. (and Japan too), because of ffmpeg and xvid. But this is still legal in Europe (but might become illegal after the vote in the European Parliament in September :( ). One solution is to host the runtime in a country which has not such restrictions, or tell people to get and compile their own mplayer if they want to watch DVDs, and distribute an mplayer without DeCSS. And tell U.S. citizens that they are not allowed to download mplayer anyway. I know this is not user-friendly, since it will break the "0 config" feature of Freevo. > Yes, we in Germany beat you guys in America in this point of stupidity > :-( DMCA in USA *is* that stupid too, AFAIK. But France is following the same path than Germany. Only Finland refused the EUCD at first (but it will come anyway later I suppose). > 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. Actually you are, if you pay the right to do so... Matthieu -- (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Universit� de Jyv�skyl� (~._.~) ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
