On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 00:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
<snip>
"DVD playback
* DVD playback (of CSS encrypted DVDs) may be a violation of the
[WWW]US DMCA, because it may be considered circumventing a
copyright protection mechanism. Additionally, MPEG2 is a
patented codec, so even DVDs without encryption cannot be
played.
Fedora Suggests: Using patent-free formats such as Ogg Theora is
highly recommended.
"
Arf, arf, arf. Would something like this "Sorry, you can't play your
audio CDs, please consider downloading them from a dodgy Korean website
as Ogg Vorbis files instead" make sense to you?
In this case, I'd say:
Fedora Suggests: "Donate money to the EFF, and lobby your local
political leaders to abolish software patents", or even removing the
suggestion.
--
Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx>
