RH10 multimedia support

[Stephen Smoogen]

I agree with Daniel here. The amount of money that would need to be 
spent on the legal case would be in the 100 million to low billions in 
cost. There would be the needed research into all case and patents, 
getting the appropriate politicians paid for (I mean lobbied), and also 
pay off the RIAA/MPAA to make them go away. It would take around 10-20 
years to get done also as you would need to make sure the appropriate 
public pressure and right judges had been appointed. IE you would need 
to do exactly what the RIAA/MPAA have done for the last 4 decades.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:23:31PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> 
>> > 2) Putting links to easily download copies of the codecs that are put on
>> > various internet sites can bring about DMCA violation lawsuits (as
>> > evidenced from the 2600.com and similar cases).
>> > 
>> > 3) It would be a calculated risk that making it easy to link in software 
>> > from people who you do not have a business relationship could also get a 
>> > DMCA case against you.
>> 
>> Maybe it's time someone with some money in one of the banks took this
>> risk. Drew the fire of the RIAA/MPAA and fought the case not against a
>> piracy claim but against a legitimate use of decss to VIEW dvds on a
>> non-windows,non-macintosh platform.
>
>  Who in Corporate America has pockets deep enough and bets enough of
>its earning on Desktop Linux to go there ? I think you have more chance
>to get there by making it a political problem and fixed that way, i.e.
>I don't think there is any chance of this happening in the foreseeable
>future <grin/>
>  Good luck !
>
>Daniel
>
>

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