From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 13:31:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 987D337B401 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1585743E7B for ; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from there (0x3ef312e1.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.18.225]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id F38E02637DE; Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen), Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Subject: Re: About to install FreeBSD as a Desktop... Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:32:14 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: References: <000001c260f3$01c8ee20$6401a8c0@SURVIVAL> <20020921063053.A94055EEF36@pfepb.post.tele.dk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020921203136.F38E02637DE@pfepc.post.tele.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 21 September 2002 19:17, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > Yes, I prefer mplayer. But there is VLC, Xine and Ogle as well (all in > > ports). > I thought DVD playing required the use of patented mathematics (I know > it's mathematics, even if they call it algorithms or methods or even > software), secret country codes, etc. What's the current situation? > How do the above players manage it? Are they legal in most countries? Xine is quite legal in all countries, but some of it's plugins are not. VLC, mplayer and Ogle breaks CSS, and is possible illegal in the US ... and with the infosoc directive in all EU-countries by 22nd december. That means, by 22nd of december I will become a criminal... civil disobedience is the path I'll choose. Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message