From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 15:08:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0F5516A420; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E21F13C4CE; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402002086; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3124D2082; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 18D8E8449D; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:08:20 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Josh Paetzel References: <1200679902.4790ebdee1975@webmail.rawbw.com> <47921F6E.8020806@FreeBSD.org> <200801191619.43588.josh@tcbug.org> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:08:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200801191619.43588.josh@tcbug.org> (Josh Paetzel's message of "Sat\, 19 Jan 2008 16\:19\:37 -0600") Message-ID: <86zluzmd23.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Joshua Isom , Doug Barton , Yuri Subject: Re: ATAPI dvdreader always fails on a particular DVD movie title X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:08:28 -0000 Josh Paetzel writes: > In a nut shell, in many places it's illegal to use 'nonauthorized' > tools (like libdvdcss) to decrypt DVDs for any purpose (including > playback). Please provide documentation. It's certainly not illegal in Europe, not in Canada as far as I know; I'm unsure about the US, but it seems to be permitted under the DMCA's Section 1201(f) (caveat: IANAL). > On top of that, the underlying tool used by nearly everything that > reads movie DVDs on FreeBSD (libdvdcss) is unmaintained by anyone > upstream, as time goes on more and more dvds are released that it > either can't decrypt or are able to choke it. I am not aware of any DVDs that libdvdcss chokes on. The last time I heard of such a thing, I loaned Sam Hocevar a copy and he fixed it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no