[mythtv-users] re:MythTV production run

[Bill Chmura]

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That was a bonehead question...  For some reason all my head would produce is 
Cascading Style sheets...  :)


On Tuesday 04 May 2004 09:34 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Bill Chmura wrote:
> >What is CSS?
>
> Content Scrambling System = the reason it's a federal felony offense for
> a MythTV user (or any Linux user) in the US to *watch* a commercial DVD
> on his/her system (regardless of how much he/she paid for the DVD movie).
>
> Most (or, to the best of my knowledge, all) commercial DVD's are
> encrypted using the Content Scrambling System.  To watch the DVD, it
> must be decrypted.  The only way to decrypt the disk is using a) a
> licensed DVD player or b) a "circumvention" technology like DeCSS.
> According to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), the creation,
> distribution, or use of any technology which circumvents an encryption
> mechanism designed to protect copyrighted digital content is illegal.
> The only licensed DVD players which operate on Linux are non-consumer
> products built for OEM's building hardware DVD players which use the
> Linux OS internally (in other words, we can not buy them, so all
> Linux-based DVD players consumers can get for Linux use DeCSS (or one of
> its variants, such as libdvdcss)).  Note, however, that there are
> licensed software DVD players available for Windows and Mac OS (and
> possibly other proprietary OS's).
>
> Mike
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