Subj : Re: DVD Support
To   : comp.os.linux
From : mcubed (Michael M.)
Date : Tue Jul 13 2004 10:30 pm

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:01:30 +0000, Larry I Smith wrote:
> 
> Below is an answer found in the SuSE newsgroup (alt.os.linux.suse).
> 
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> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:34:23 -0500, Kerry Sanders wrote:
> 
> For legal reasons commercial distributions are not allowed to distribute
> software which can defeat the DVD copy protection (called CSS).  Therefore
> the xine-lib supplied by SuSE is compiled without CSS support.

"Not allowed?"  Why couldn't SuSE distribute CSS?  MS does, Apple does. 
If SuSE doesn't it's because it doesn't want to pay for the license, not
because it's "not allowed" to.

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