This post was origionally published
at sinewalker.blogspot.com.au on 7 March 2006
There
are excellent
instructions for installing/patching SUSE to play commercial
(CSS
encrypted) DVDs. I had no
trouble following them either. Wonder of wonders.
The whole issue
of libdvdcss being
“illegal”
in DMCA-enlisted
countries seems
to be mute now, from my perspective... so long as your intent is only to
watch movies that you have legally obtained (and not fincancial gain), then it
should be fine — if it's good enough for the MPAA, then it's good enough for
me. This would seem to me to work well with Australia's existing copyright
law, which specifically grants fair-use copying and playing anyway, and goes
against the dogma of the DMCA.