the libdvdcss issue

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 11:42, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 18.11.2008 11:12, Hans de Goede wrote:
[...]
> >it is one of the repos 
> >which make up the new rpmfusion, also we want this to work seamlessly.
> 
> Enabling a repository that ships libdvdcss automatically is nearly just 
> as bad as shipping it directly in our repos (¹). It hence would 
> pollute/taint RPM Fusion and imho is a completely no go.
[...]
> >To just work, this is way too convoluted IMHO:
> >rpm -ivh http://.......rpmfusion-nonfree-release.....rpm
> >yum install thirdparty-repo-enabler
> >thirdparty-repo-enabler
> ><click, click, wait, click>
> >yum install libdvdcss
> 
> Sure, the latter is a bit more complicated, but imho it's the right 
> thing to do, especially as the user might do something that is illegal 
> in his country.

I thought only distribution of unauthorized binaries that allow you
to access CSS-obfuscated content was illegal in some countries,
but please feel free to point me to an article of law that says that
playback of a legally purchased DVD is a crime, too.

> (¹) the reasons are similar to the reasons why Fedora doesn't even link 
> to RPM Fusion

I thought one of the main points of creating RPMFusion was to allow Fedora
to link to us. If that doesn't happen, we might as well keep libdvdcss.

Regards,
R.

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