RE: [MLUG] Anyone planning on getting a OLPC laptop?

["Nowlin, Dan" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike if you use an RPM based distro then take a look at this link:
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ 

This person takes daily builds of xine and includes libdvdcss and other
stuff a linux person needs to make xine usefull.

Daniel Nowlin
TelCom DataCenter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:members-
> EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 01:52
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] Anyone planning on getting a OLPC laptop?
> 
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jack Smith wrote:
> 
> > There are no movie-playing programs that I am aware of on Linux that
> > have an official CSS decryption key and are legal to distribute in
> the
> > U.S. However, CSS is very easy to crack as a very short Perl program
> > called DeCSS can simply brute-force it a matter or milliseconds.
> That's
> > pretty much how everybody on Linux plays DVDs. I've never heard of
> > anybody getting in trouble over using DeCSS as the servers that host
> the
> > DeCSS code as well as programs that have it bundled do not reside in
> the
> > U.S. and include the appropriate "WARNING: due to the DMCA, using
> this
> > program may be illegal in the U.S." notification. The author of
> DeCSS,
> > Jon Johannsen, was sued but got off as he is a Swede and breaking
DRM
> is
> > not illegal there- only doing something illegal afterwards (hosting
> the
> > file to BitTorrent, for example) is.
> 
> I know about DeCSS, sort of.  I remember studying it a little once
upon
> a
> time.  It seemed to require some sort of key that was different for
> every
> DVD.  Am I wrong?  Anyway, I couldn't figure out how to use it so I
> stopped trying, but that was like 7 years ago or something.
> 
> Is there a good web page about how to actually use DeCSS to play a DVD
> on
> a Linux machine?
> 
> Mike
> 
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