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Chad wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I always look at it this way... Every computer or dvd drive I have
ever bought comes with some sort of oem windows dvd player software.
I've paid for the drive, I own a ligit version of a dvd playback
software (the licence fee is paid), I believe its within my rights to
play the dvd back in linux using decss if need be.
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This was my other question:
If I buy a copy of Cyberlink PowerDVD for windows, am I then licensed
for a single player to play DVD's on my computer; so if it were to
ever come up, I can say 'I've got a legit license to play DVD's on my
computer"?
Thoughts?
And I tend to agree on the point that it probably won't get litigated
again (DeCSS in it's current form, but possibly whatever Linux comes
up with for HD-DVD/Blue-Ray might) but am curious and trying to overly
cautious for people I'm planning on building computers for (I don't
want to get sued, and even more importantly, I don't want them to get
sued).
Chad
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Technically, from a legal perspective, the only way that owning
cyberdvd or windvd allows you to play a dvd in linux would be if you
could make it work under Wine or if you run it in something like
VMWare. Owning a license for those does not entitle you to use
libdvdcss legally. The makers of WinDVD have a product called LinDVD.
IAFAIK it is this product that Linspire licenses. It has gone through
the testing and met with the approval of the DVD and MPEG2 licensing
groups (which are not the MPAA) and is a totally legal way to play DVDs
under Linux.<br>
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