DVD Player

[John Summerfield]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:58, Scott Talbot wrote:
>         Not to start a war, but AFAIK, DMCA has only been used to stop a
> company from distributing a software that would copy DVD's (that was
> it's intended purpose).

Wasn't there a Swede named Johanson or similar who got dudded over this? His 
software had legal uses but could also be used illegally.

>         The reason Red Hat won't include a DVD player is the same as the
> reason they don't ship an MP3 player, i.e. the formats are not open source.
> This is the stated purpose of Fedora, to put together a Distro of
> completely Open source products.

I b'lieve he problem with mp3 is patents. Altogether a different animal.


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