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LSDVD Starts Cooking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-on-up dept.

A reader writes: "The guys at LSDVD, now funded, are going to pay the powers that be the licensing fee and the per program royalties for the rights to make and sell a DVD player for Linux. This means that a free, give-em-hell, fight-the-power, Linux DVD player is a long ways off" - you can read the news on the homepage. Remember, LinDVD is also moving and shaking as well.

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  1. I've got mixed feelings about this by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 5
    Has Slashdot's collective memory become so short that nobody here can remember the pending DeCSS lawsuits?

    Having a licensed, approved, certified and authorized DVD player for Linux is only a victory for people who like to watch movies on their computer monitor. For open source, free-speech, and freedom of expression, it is a defeat. The licensing scheme itself and the lawsuits against reverse engineering are reprehensible, and all we're being offered here is an opportunity to buy in to--and help underwrite--corporate thuggery.

    So if you really feel the need to subsidize the MPAA's lawsuits against freedom and innovation, go ahead and support these guys, or anybody else that sucks up to the consortium/cartel. In the meantime, though, I'm reluctant to sell my soul just so I can hear director's commentary for Battlefield Earth.

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  2. Re:Who cares about this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    In order for this to be some sort of holy Open Source movement, you people need to understand a fundamental part of civil disobedience--you're wiling to go to jail for what you believe in. If your whole stance is "free software and free MP3s and free DVD players" then you either abstain from the technologies until a legal, free solution is provided, or you utilize an illegal solution, with the understanding that you may have to pay the price for that defiance.

    "Linux is meant to encourage freedom" - Well, Linux hasn't been codified into law in any country I've heard of, so if you'll continue to use illegal technology (even if the law is stupid), be prepared to face the consequences.