Re: [orca-list] playing videos in ubuntu



Ah, well I'm glad I live in a country where following the laws isn't optional and just anyone with a biased or misinformed view can't hide behind the fact that they think a law is ridiculous. I don't agree with every law on the books, and I've worked to change laws I don't agree with, but I don't assume it's my right to pick and choose the laws I'll follow. I don't think the laws around intellectual property are as black and white as you think, and I'd be shocked if you actually have a plan to get us from the current state of intellectual property and digital rights management laws to that utopia you must think would exist if they were to just suddenly go away.

On 02/27/2015 05:51 AM, Josh K wrote:
I will follow the laws to a point. but there is such a thing as
rediculous laws that go overboard. and when the laws get rediculous and
go overboard, taking away my rights, or trying to, then sorry I can no
longer follow them. By rediculous I mean all the restrictions in
proprietary license agreements, dvd encryption and so on. I do not mean
laws meant to keep people safe such as no speeding on highways and so on
those laws are reasonable. Even some software not many but some software
licenses are reasonable, but sadly most are not most are so convoluted
and rediculous if I choose not to follow them I don't feel guilty or bad
at all. dvd encryption is one. restrictive drm on both software and
media is another.

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On 2/26/2015 9:10 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
I assume it's because some people want to actually follow the law as
opposed to knowing they just won't get caught breaking it.

On 02/26/2015 04:38 PM, Josh K wrote:
why do you have to check laws in your area? do computers have detectors
so when you use illegal software your computer phones the police and
they show up at your door to arrest you for using illegal stuff? no. you
can use libdvd without worries i think.

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On 2/26/2015 5:32 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
This may be of help with libdvdcss. Please make sure to check the
laws in your area though:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Luke
Yelavich
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:22 PM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] playing videos in ubuntu

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 05:41:51AM AEDT, Michael Weaver wrote:
The main problem I am having with Ubuntu seems to be using video
codecs to play classic DVDs.
For watching dvds, you should only need vlc, and libdvdcss. I am not
going to outline how to to get libdvdcss because many juristictions
have laws against such encryption breaking technologies, dvd playback
should not require ubuntu-restricted-extras, at least not if you are
using vlc.

Luke
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