On Friday 29 August 2003 08:48 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
> >
> > I hope I dont see that for real
>
> I'm up for violating patents. :)
>
> You can still enter the site. But the EPA is trying to shut the page
> down. Pity. Just mvoe the site to .au or somewhere :).
>
> I doubt that patents were violated. One of the issues with respect to
> DVDs is a region code. The manufacturers of the original DVD standard
> were pressured IMHO by the government agencies into putting this
> code into every DVD player. And they were wimps, and they ended up
> giving various governments a tool to control what is viewed.
>
>
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It is part of the protest over software patents in the EU. The European 
Parliament was to vote on it today I think, but they once again postponed, 
mainly due to the protests.  Hope they succeed in stopping the patents since 
we didn't here in the USA. No vote no nothing, just got patents on software 
shoved down our throats by big business.
-- 
Dennis M. linux user #180842

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