cyclone9 Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 as above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 crimsonhead Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Why would a media player be illegal? :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 AimLXJ Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dagamer34 Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Why would a media player be illegal? :huh: It does play DVDs without paying for the license... :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 C++ Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Of course VLC is legal, it's just a media player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 virgo89 Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 legal. topic closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CoolCatBad Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq/en/index.html#id289704 The use and distribution of the libdvdcss library is controversial in a few countries such as the United States because of a law called the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act). If you are unsure about the legality of using and distributing this library in your country, please consult your lawyer. Note Beware: VLC media player binaries are distributed with the libdvdcss library included. Some of the codecs distributed with VLC are patented and require you to pay royalties to their licensors. These are mostly the MPEG style codecs. With many products the producer pays the license body (in this case MPEG LA) so the user (commercial or personal) does not have to take care of this. VLC (and ffmpeg and libmpeg2 which it uses in most of these cases) cannot do this because they are Free and Open Source implementations of these codecs. The software is not sold and therefore the end-user becomes responsible for complying to the licensing and royalty requirements. You will need to contact the licensor on how to comply to these licenses. This goes for playing a DVD with VLC for your personal joy ($2.50 one time payment to MPEG LA) as well as for using VLC for streaming a live event in MPEG-4 over the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CrisCr0ss Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 ppft i aint payin sh*t. VLC FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ozgeek Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Of course it's legal. It's some of the codecs that's shipped with it that's illegial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 GeeZuZz Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Of course it's legal. It's some of the codecs that's shipped with it that's illegial. Then it's illegal. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 [DGS] Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 It's like Slysoft's AnyDVD, CloneDVD programs etc etc.. Everywhere these programs are illegal EXCEPT the country they are hosted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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