[plug] Open source DVD playback

[John Knight]

No doubt a lot of you have heard/have been following the Linux DVD playback 
situation for a while. For those two or three that haven't, Linux DVD 
players have been using decss to playback encrypted DVDs and decss is on the 
way to being declared VERY ILLEGAL.

This is just an idea of mine, but why don't the 'DVD standard people' (to 
give 'em a technical term!) release a closed source, executable decryption 
programme? What I mean here is that you simply get the programme itself, and 
then base the player around it so that DVD secrets aren't released to the 
world and we can resume making DVD players, even if they're only partly open 
source (at least we could play any DVD without going into 'windoze').

Anyone else like this idea? Please point out all the flaws in my logic 
though, as it could be a seriously useable idea (you never know!).

anarchist tomato

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