Unfortunately, last time I read through the DMCA nonsense, the
impression I got was that mere *possession* of software designed to
bypass content restrictions is a crime under that statute.  It's bad
law, and shouldn't have been enacted, but we're stuck with it at the
moment.  I'm in no way worried about copyright infringement, I know the
limits there, and have no problem with them.  It's the stupid DRM
garbage that always causes me problems.

==Joseph++

Donn Shumway wrote:

>
>
> On 4/29/05, *Joseph Sinclair* <plug-discuss@stcaz.net
> <mailto: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