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Re: [orca-list] playing videos in ubuntu

I highly doubt I would get fined or put in jail for using ubuntu to play encrypted dvds. Just like I bought eloquence for window-eyes, and I also bought it for android. but yet it is still illegal for me to use it with NVDA? How dumb is that license agreement and that law. I bought the software twice maybe 3 times over. and yet they can still come into my house and tell me what I can and cannot use the eloquence software with? Laws about drugs, and speeding on highways and such are reasonable. most license agreements including freedom scientific's highly restrictive authorization keys, and other forms of drm are not or do not fall under the category as being reasonable laws. I bought the software, let me use it with what ever I want, when I want. Am I hurting anyone? no. Are people losing money? no. am I profiting off of their work by selling their product or reselling without permission? no. Is anyone being injured or are dead, hurt, can they still feed themselves and their families? yes I'd say so. People cracking jaws if necessary, or using NVDA or free desktop linux distros which in the longrun makes computers themselves run faster and be happier, in a third world country such accessibility could mean you have a job or you don't have a job. Orca, NVDA, or the $1300 jaws screen reader if needed. To deny someone living in Africa or India or some other developing country the necessary tools even if it is a cracked copy of jaws if they find they need such a thing, to deny someone opportunities because they can't afford to pay for the software is not right at all. If NVDA and orca works all the better. it's free. The assistive tech companies are not selling to you and me anyway, they sell to the government agencies such as blindness and visual services in the united states or they sell to the RNIB in the UK. Jaws is not really a product for the consumer to purchase by his or herself. and I'm glad we have Orca and NVDA and Ubuntu and arch and the free desktops and screen readers and applications. If this laptop broke right now I could go out to newegg and for $139 or so maybe less get a laptop and put ubuntu mate on it. then add some ppa's to keep my desired apps up to date. and if I really needed itunes or some proprietary windows stuff I could use wine or run it in an xp vm. 

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On 2/27/2015 11:12 AM, Alex Midence wrote:

For your sake, hope you stay under the radar of people in whose interest it is that such laws are followed.  
Otherwise, you have totally gone and screwed yourself over. You actually got online and proceeded to state in 
writing in front of God and everybody that you would willfully break a law just because you didn't agree with 
it.  It's online for good too; archived forever more and available via Google and everything for anyone with 
a mind to build a case against you to go and find.  Wiser things have been done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh K [mailto:joshknnd1982 gmail com]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 5:55 AM
To: Alex Midence; 'Luke Yelavich'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] playing videos in ubuntu

I only ignore unreasonable rediculous laws. ones that are reasonable and make sense I gladly follow.

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On 2/26/2015 11:54 PM, Alex Midence wrote:

Go ahead.  Ignore the laws and see what happens.  Be our guinea pig.


-----Original Message-----
From: Josh K [mailto:joshknnd1982 gmail com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 4:38 PM
To: Alex Midence; 'Luke Yelavich'; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] playing videos in ubuntu

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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