Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
On Jun 17, 12:11 pm, "dennis@home" <den...@killspam.kicks-ass.net>
wrote:
> "stilicho" <ness...@wigner.berkeley.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:a6360bf6-cb16-4784-8945-d3422eeba16e@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
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> > I just recently found out that my Ubuntu system completely and
> > automatically bypasses region coding.
>
> So you have installed the DVD code, the illegal stuff?
>
> > This was quite a PITA for me,
> > since I have some DVD's bought (legally, I might add
>
> Why tell us it legal when you have installed illegal software to play them?
> You may as well have downloaded the region free versions off the net.
>
> > ) in Europe. I
> > can't play them on my Mac (haven't tried on a Windows machine but the
> > issues are the same) because it only allows a maximum of 5 changes of
> > region (that is, I can't play a mixture of European and US DVDs). On
> > Ubuntu---no problem!
>
> Its no problem on windows either if you want to install illegal software
> but at least we can play DVDs in one region legally while you can't on
> ubuntu.
>
> You really shouldn't have bought the legality into this thread. ;-)
You are correct that I could have installed software to circumvent css
on Windows or Macs.
The software I use under ubuntu is libdvdcss. It is common, almost
universal, on Linux machines because without it you cannot play most
DVDs at all.
However, it is not at all clear that libdvdcss is illegal. I quote
from wikipedia:
"Unlike DeCSS, libdvdcss has never been fought over in a courtroom, in
part because Section 1201(f) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
authorizes such circumvention for purposes of software
interoperability."