2009/10/5 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es>: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:42:22 +0100, Stroller > <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: >> On 5 Oct 2009, at 15:18, Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >> I actually find this a little surprising. I might have thought that >> the devs might have separated the decryption and playback components: >> one could imagine it being legal to play back a region 0 DVD in some >> territories, but not to install or operate encryption "circumvention" >> software. > > Yes, I agree, USE flags are a bit fuzzy. Even if legality wasn't a > problem, still it's not accurate to use such a name for an use flag that > adds support for decryption. It's even funnier when you realize that you > don't even need to enable it to play all the dvd's (only encrypted ones). > In such cases, the best thing is to fill an enhancement bug and hope for > the best. I might do that later if I manager to remember it.
Yeah, I'm agreeing about this notion. Particularly with the legality issues, there might be some desire to separate watching unencrypted DVDs from encryption. I suppose if the enhancement bug is filed, a suggested name for the new USE flag is something like dvd-crypto. Regards, daid
