[plug] Open source DVD playback

[John Knight]

Ahh, I see. What I meant by 'release' is a publicly released executable that 
can be used by anyone and is available freely. If there's only one way to 
playback DVDs (codewise) that are encrypted and we could get it freely nad 
base players around it, what's the problem (apart from competing formats, 
but this is a different topic)?

If those in charge wouldn't want to release a free-to-public executable, 
then they're smelly bastards, aren't they? ;)


>
>On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, John Knight wrote:
> > > This is just an idea of mine, but why don't the 'DVD standard people'
> > > release a closed source, executable decryption programme?
>
> > By only licensing the decryption code to people who pay a license fee 
>and
> > sign a contract, they are able to:
> > a) receive MORE money via the licensing fees
> > b) ensure that those players that are created are written so that people
> >    cannot fast forward past the advertising, and cannot export the 
>stream
> >    to disk in another format (such as divx) easily.
>
>   c) sell at different prices and possibly different conditions into
>      different markets, by preventing discs bought in one region from
>      being played in another.
>
>-Greg
>
>


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