Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 18, 2002 04:15 PM
Every entirely open source operating system can't play DVD's legally, because the only way to play DVD's within the bounds of the DMCA is by buying a license from the DVD-CCA, and that dictates that i has to be impossible to make screenshots of a movie playing. You can imagine how easy it is to get around any limitations put into the system that block you from taking screenshots while playing a movie when you have the source. So having the source means not having DVD's, in the US at least.
This was by the way one of the reasons why it took so long for OS X to get DVD playing capability, because they had to find a way to get the closed source layers to sufficiently mask the DVD from the open source lower levels.
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Re:Here we go again
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 18, 2002 04:15 PMThis was by the way one of the reasons why it took so long for OS X to get DVD playing capability, because they had to find a way to get the closed source layers to sufficiently mask the DVD from the open source lower levels.
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