On 03/06/16 12:34, dennis@home wrote:

(MS have given up on DVD these days it seems - you don't even get a DVD
player program included with recent versions of windows)



That's because they have to pay royalties to include it, unlike Linux
where they just point the user to somewhere they can steal it.

Use of libdvdcss is free and not illegal here/EU. In the US the
situation is different as they observe software patents. In the event no
keys were stolen to create that software library which is widely used on
Linux and Windows. The ancient DeCSS is another matter.

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Adrian C