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I know, but I've never seen any free operating system actually including libdvdcss on the install discs, and if I'm not mistaken, the retail FreeBSD CDs you can buy at CompUSA also has libdvdcss on it!Judland wrote:Actually, Arch Linux supplies libdvdcss on their repository as well. It's in the "Extra" directory.
I think the key is they distribute it as source. To decode DVDs may be illegal, but to tell someone how to do it is not. People used to have T-shirts with de-CSS code on it just to prove this point.Tsuroerusu wrote:I've been playing with FreeBSD for a little while now, and I've noticed that they actually include libdvdcss on the install CDs! And it's available from all their mirrors in binary format, if FreeBSD can do this why can't pretty much every Linux distro? I checked at OpenBSD and they do the same thing.
I don't think it gets installed by default, unless to choose to during the installation process, but it's definitely on the disc as a binary, trust me I just checkedGomer_X wrote:I think the key is they distribute it as source. To decode DVDs may be illegal, but to tell someone how to do it is not. People used to have T-shirts with de-CSS code on it just to prove this point.Tsuroerusu wrote:I've been playing with FreeBSD for a little while now, and I've noticed that they actually include libdvdcss on the install CDs! And it's available from all their mirrors in binary format, if FreeBSD can do this why can't pretty much every Linux distro? I checked at OpenBSD and they do the same thing.
Since you're saying it comes as a binary, though, I'm not sure how they get away with it. I don't recall seeing it when I installed FreeBSD.
Emmanuel Goldstein also got his ass handed to him for linking to pages that contained the DeCSS code on them from the 2600 site. I'd say that it's a grey area at best, and that smaller distros can get away with it because they're more or less flying under the radar of the MPAA and govt. snoops.Gomer_X wrote: I think the key is they distribute it as source. To decode DVDs may be illegal, but to tell someone how to do it is not. People used to have T-shirts with de-CSS code on it just to prove this point.
Since you're saying it comes as a binary, though, I'm not sure how they get away with it. I don't recall seeing it when I installed FreeBSD.
Yeah, but what do think is running the guindance systems on most of the current weapons systems? Listen to the interview with Scott Long. Who does he work for? What is his area of expertise? Hello, hello....Snarkout wrote: I'd say that it's a grey area at best, and that smaller distros can get away with it because they're more or less flying under the radar of the MPAA and govt. snoops.
Yeah man, FreeBSD is one of the big guys!Patrick wrote:Yeah, but what do think is running the guindance systems on most of the current weapons systems? Listen to the interview with Scott Long. Who does he work for? What is his area of expertise? Hello, hello....Snarkout wrote: I'd say that it's a grey area at best, and that smaller distros can get away with it because they're more or less flying under the radar of the MPAA and govt. snoops.