The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

Chip Marshall chip at 2bithacker.net
Tue Mar 9 11:04:16 EST 2010


On 08-Mar-2010, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> sent:
> I believe it was this pod cast http://twit.tv/floss95 where I
> heard this paraphrased quote: "Under DRM laws in the US, not
> only is it illegal to play DVDs on Linux, but it is illegal to
> tell some one else how to do it."

According to Wikipedia[1], Dell ships Ubuntu with LinDVD
preinstalled, and Mandriva includes it in their commercial
distro.

Legal DVD playback in Linux is entirely possible, you just have
to buy software to do it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinDVD

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