__/ [ Tim Fairchild ] on Monday 15 January 2007 14:18 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> InterVideo And Linux
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>> | InterVideo is best known as a software company that makes DVD and
>> | video software for PCs. Tens of millions of people have InterVideo
>> | software on their computers.
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>> http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp
>>
>> Already embraced by Mandriva Linux. It doesn't allow omission of adverts
>> and other cruft though.
>
> It's also broken. It usually quits about 10 minutes into the movie on all 3
> systems I have it on here.
>
> Totem et all with libdvdcss work reliably...
Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France
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| Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with
| CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a
| software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or
| mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.
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http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/12/30/reading-a-dvd-with-vlc-or-mplayer-is-now-illegal-in-france/
Part of Microsoft's lobbying crusade, aimed at illegalising use of Free
software and expand American imperialism.
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| Well well, the exponent of Capitalism just paid a little visit to the
| remnants of communism - on a subject they're both all to familiar with:
| repression:
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| http://www.kommersant.com/p719683/r_528/
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| "A source that deals with the company said unofficially that Gates
| proposed Microsoft's Digital Rights Management technology as a national
| standard to fight piracy at the governmental level."
|
| Yeah, in their dreams ...
|
| "That system allows for complete control over the use of the digital
| content of Microsoft products."
|
| Now you guess who has this "complete control" ...
|
| "If the state makes Microsoft's DRM mandatory, life will be much harder
| for users and sellers of illegal software."
|
| ... and if this means that Linux users lose access all sorts of internet
| media it's just an "unfortunate side effect"? Or should Linux perhaps be
| outlawed altogether, as it can't legally support MS-DRM?
|
| Ah well, we all know it: listening to Microsoft amounts to digging your
| own grave.
|
| Richard Rasker
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