Restricted Codecs Mess in Linux

Posted by gsh on Dec 26, 2007 2:58 AM EDT
MadPenguin.org; By Matt Hartley
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There are a number of newcomers who migrate to Linux and then find themselves at ends with the confusion regarding restricted formats and codecs in the US. The laws regarding usage are confusing and all over the map, thus leaving many Linux distributions forced to mark them as possibly illegal to use in some countries, despite no solid evidence to actually support this outside of MPAA and RIAA rhetoric, which is hardly a court's decision.

And in a recent article, I took this whole idea to task and examine how it may not actually be illegal to use libdvdcss after all.

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