New Copyright law implications for DVD on Linux?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 41.12 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not ap-
>> ply to a person who owns a computer program
>> or a copy of one, or has a licence to use the pro-
>> gram or copy, and who circumvents a techno-
>> logical protection measure that protects that
>> program or copy for the sole purpose of obtain-
>> ing information that would allow the person to
>> make the program and any other computer pro-
>> gram interoperable.
>
> This wording makes it legal to play a DVD on Linux *if and only if*
> you also have a Windows machine with licensed DVD playback software,
> AFAICT.
>
>  - Tony

Or you can buy the quite affordable Fluendo's DVD player for Linux:
http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-dvd-player/

and in the process help financially a company that do a lot of work on
gstreamer and various open source projects most of us use:


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluendo)
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Projects sponsored by Fluendo

GStreamer, framework for multimedia application development. Fluendo
developed the 0.10.x series which are widely used in today's Linux
distributions.

Pitivi, a non linear video editor for the Free Software desktop.
Fluendo hired the lead developer of that project for two years.

Cortado, an open source Java applet featuring a lightweight
implementation of GStreamer in Java with royalty free codecs like
Theora and Vorbis. This applet allows content producers to use royalty
free formats without worrying about the end user media player
capabilities.

Theora, a royalty free codec. Fluendo funded the Xiph Foundation for
enhancing and fixing Theora implementation so that it becomes usable
for production environments.

Theora and Vorbis RTP specifications. Streaming using royalty-free
codecs with the

RTP protocol was something the community needed. Fluendo funded that project.

MP3 codec made available at no cost for Linux and Solaris desktop users.

Pigment a 3D scene graph library designed to easily create rich
application user interfaces. Pigment includes fully-supported Python
bindings.
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-- 
Daniel Robitaille