[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

Dermot McGahon dermot at dspsrv.com
Wed Aug 25 16:51:15 IST 2004


On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:10:36 +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue <bryano at europlex.ie>  
wrote:

> However, for me, there is no ethical conundrum in using a closed source  
> binary only driver on Linux, to watch a DVD, when using the media player  
> I use (on the hardware & dvd's I bought, with my hard earned) is  
> 'technically' illegal.
>
> For me *that's* an important issue.

I'm not sure what media player you're referring to, but chances
are it's using libdvdcss which is *not* illegal to use. It's not
technically illegal or even vaguely illegal to use. In this
jurisdiction anyway. It doesn't even use the DeCSS algorithm.


Dermot.
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