[ILUG] Legality of commercial DVD playback.

[Rory Browne]

2009/1/21 Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie>

> Rory Browne wrote:
> [snip]
> >>
> >
> > http://www.entemp.ie/publications/sis/2004/si16.pdf
> >
> >
> [snip]
>
>        Hugely interesting! Thanks. Also, if I'm reading (document above)
> correctly
> there may be an implication in 5.2 (replacement of section 374) that if I
> have
> a right to access a copyrighted work, there is some onus on the distributor
> of
> that work to provide me with a means of accessing it at a time and place of
> my
> choosing. Since I don't have a Windows machine, I could suggest that the
> distributor of that DVD (which I have a right to access) must supply me
> with
> some method of viewing the material on Linux - though this is tempered by
> the
> fact that hardware DVD players are available publicly, etc., etc.


There is room for arguement - "Make available" does not necesarly mean
provide, nor
does it imply zero-cost or DFSG-compliance-of-licence . For example there is
a solution available
in the form of Cyberlink Power Cinema, that pays the relevent ransoms, etc.

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