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

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