Include MPlayer in beta?

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 2 22:57:19 UTC 2003


Probably but Red Hat would still not be able to link to them. Most of 
the links that were removed from the 2600.com page were outside of the 
U.S.

On 2 Sep 2003, seth vidal wrote:

>If you extrapolate from various United States court rulings about 
>> linking to content can be illegal.. I would say that Red Hat can not 
>> even do this and sell a product in the United States.
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>I consider this to be an excellent reason why there needs to be an
>outside-of-the-us yum/apt/etc repository available for packages that 1.
>red hat can't ship legally and 2. can't be housed on a us server legally
>but 3. everyone installs for themselves* :)
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>-sv
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>*the above is in no way an encouragement of illegal activity however, if
>you're resisting the silly circumvention sections of the DMCA I think
>that's something closer to civil disobedience. :-D
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