This is good news for Windows users, but actually, in Ubuntu, VLC's plugin is useless, for some reason I'm not really aware of. MPlayer's works... when it wants to.
Now, there is a difference between willful infringement and non-willful infringement. Willful infringement means that you know you're making a copy of a copyrighted work, and non-willful means that you don't know what you're copying is copyrighted or not. It could be argued that because downloads don't carry a notice, that the downloader has no idea whether or not what he's downloading is copyrighted and not licensed for download or if it is licensed for free download, or public domain or what. IANAL, too, but actually, I don't think there's a difference, since in my country, not having knowledge of the law isn't an excuse for not following it. I believe this is true in most, if not all countries since otherwise, the potential for abuse would be too great ("– I didn't know I couldn't kill him!!! – Case dismissed.").
Furthermore, as others pointed out, I believe that in all the countries that signed the Berne convention, works of art are copyrighted by default. I think all that would come out of that would be a court mandating that labels should be applied to all music files (I'm not talking about my country this time, since jurisprudence isn't worth jack, here).
Re:how about an affordable one instead.
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"OMG XBOX HUEG" Don't you mean "OMG PS3 HUEG"?
the "cheap" models at walmart start at 900 and go up from there, and if you actually want color fidelity youre looking at a minimum 1500. Though there's no Wal-Mart here in Portugal for me to compare to, I have to say yeah, they're expensive. Fortunately (or not) for us, HDTV hasn't really caught up here. I just wish they get rid of the DRM crap by the time it does.
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Next on the list: lightsabers, and the ability to find capuccino foam by itself :)
Oh, and thanks for your help :). Gotta start previewing more :X.
Just did it. I was missing one of those packages. Video works ok, but I don't get any sound, though... Well, it's better than it was,at least.
Crap, I forgot to ask what I meant to: can anyone give me some suggestions for alternatives, or does anyone have any idea of what I'm doing wrong?
This is good news for Windows users, but actually, in Ubuntu, VLC's plugin is useless, for some reason I'm not really aware of. MPlayer's works... when it wants to.
I, for one, DO NOT welcome our not so new domain squatting overlords.