There are a lot of bad laws out there.  You can hardly breathe without
breaking one.  Plus - and I've probably ranted on this before -
unenforceability is really the only reason bad laws ever get repealed. 
(Think Prohibition, the 55 MPH speed limit, and the Draft during the
Vietnam era.)  In other words, government bad, civil disobedience good. 
:-)

Vaughn

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:29, Donn Shumway wrote:
> 
> On 4/29/05, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discuss@stcaz.net> wrote:
>         The error you're getting is similar to the one I get when I
>         attempt to
>         play a region-locked DVD (secondary text is "cannot open
>         resource").
>         Even though my player is set for the correct region.  I don't
>         have DeCSS 
>         installed (since I don't like to break the law, even really
>         bad laws
>         like the DMCA), so I guess most commercial DVD's just won't
>         play on my
>         Ubuntu box.
>         
> 
> I hope this does not turn into another 'The law vs. OSS' debate, but I
> have a few questions for you... 
> 
> 1) Do you own or did you legally rent the DVD's you're trying to play?
> 2) Do you own your dvd player?
> 3) Are the subject DVDs intended for your current region?
> 4) Are you intending to distribute software with libdvdcss included in
> order to circumvent the DVD's copy protection?
> 
> If the answers to 1-3 are Yes, and to 4 is No... Why do you think you
> would be breaking the law?
> 
> -- 
> Donn
> "Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger."
> --Richard North Patterson

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