[MPlayer-users] Re: [MPlayer-users] ASF patenting ?

[gabor farkas]

ok, so what to do now?

i think it should be an important thing to make mplayer legal...

so maybe it would be a good idea to first find all the vulnerable points
( like asf, wma, win-dll decoding etc ), and then try to create a
version without those things etc...

or can we assume that all the legal problems are only about the win32
codecs? so if someone doesn't use win32-codecs, then he is using a
completely legal product?

for me i don't think asf support is worth dying, you can always use wine
+ virtualdub +things_from_windows, of course using wine is discutable
too but it's not ou battle to fight:-)

as i see first we should find a way to separate dhe 'dangerous' sources
from the 'safe' ones... to be able to create a safe-version...


bye,
gabor

( i just remembered that rm support has probably the same problems as
asf-support....but i wan t to watch my rm's in mplayer ! :-)))




On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 03:24:58PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > guys, you look scared as hell. What's going on? I can understand, that some
> > USA guy is scared of RIAA, DMCA and such bullshit. But m-Europeans? Can
> > you imagine M$ guys walking to your flat in Budapest/Prague/Warsaw? I come
> > from Brno/CZ and this imagination sound ridiculous to me. What can they do?
> everything.
> 
> > Are they police? No. Are they gods? No. They are just bunch of crack-heads with
> > big amount of money in their asses. That's it.
> yes. and it's enough, at least here.
> 
> they come and say that you are a cracker of technology x y z.
> and the police will arrest you. maybe after years you'll be freeed, but it's
> late then. unfortunatelly, money is over law at many places.
> 
> yes, i know that we are right and m$ is the bad, but they have enough money
> to pay the best group of lawyers, while we haven't.
> and where no strict, exact laws for such things, the better lawyer wins.
> 
> 
> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> 
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