Dolby Tells NetBSD Project: Don't Decode AC3

Mycroft writes: "There's a new entrant into the open source DVD legal battle: Dolby Laboratories. The NetBSD Project received this letter demanding that links to the open source ac3dec package be removed. What's next?" Probably what's next are yet more letters sent to every other project which enables decoding of content on platforms unsupported by the format licensors. Remember, you don't buy anything anymore -- you license it.

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Re:This is why licensing should stop.

[Coz]

Private schools can cherry-pick their students, and can discriminate on a number of bases; privately owned roads are impossible to find in rural areas, apart from privately owned lands (How do we get to the next town? Through them thar woods, boys!); and the FDA has saved hundreds of thousands of lives by making people test drugs, and ordering the withdrawal of bad ones from the market.

It ain't perfect, but it's a darn sight better than not having anything.