Nothing will be crippled; we'll just make sure to dlopen() libraries that do things that are wrapped up in legalities.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:58:26PM +0100, Q wrote: > Well look, the sensible thing is not to get too worked up over the > legalities. > > I think CD protection in general is going to become more prevelant even in > audio CDs, so eventually if you worried too much about it, this would > prevent a project like this from ever existing. > > To my mind this is all part of MS and big business' DRM plans, that much to > MS' glee are apparently set to destroy the potential for Linux to act as a > desktop OS, or for it to have any multi-media capacity at all. Deliberate or > not (and perhaps from MS' and other's stand point, its purely beneficial) > that is exactly the direction we're headed in. > > At some point or other though something has to give. Either Linux gets > consigned to the dustbin of history and never lives up to its full potential > as a desktop/multi-media OS, or people organise and prepare to engage in > some form of civil resistance. > > This whole DRM thing is simply eating into the functionality of Linux - and > it looks set in the near future to get much worse. (Palladium andyone?) I > think however it's too early to be giving up on it and putting our hands up > and offerring to surrender. Like I said, things are going to get much > tougher in the near future for everyone. This was always going to be a > fight. You will have to be prepared for that - and be prepared to deal with > the concequences. > > Q > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthieu Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 2:36 PM > Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Legal issues [Was: audio.cdbackup] > > > 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? 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