• BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    What if Disney wanted to integrate their own DRM support into the Linux Kernel so you could watch Disney Blu-Ray movies? Would you accept the “you don’t have to watch Disney movies” justification?

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      9 months ago

      I’d be fine with VLC having a way to watch proprietary Blu-Rays. I think it has that feature and it does seem useful for those who want to watch Disney Blu-Rays. VLC is supposed to be pretty much a swiss army knife of media players, after all.

      If you wanted to compare to the kernel then best comparison would be to something like proprietary drivers or something.

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        9 months ago

        We had to fight corporations for the right to decode DVDs and Blu-rays with FOSS software. This has been a major part of the software freedom movement. I don’t want to see a deviation away from principles.

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          9 months ago

          There’s room for both the principled take and the practicality. We have both FOSS distros and those that ship patent encumbered stuff and proprietary driver.

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            9 months ago

            And VideoLAN has been pricipled for nearly 15 years. I’d like to see them stay that way.

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              9 months ago

              VLC has been distributed with libdvdcss and patent incumbered codecs for ages.

              Beware: VLC media player binaries are distributed with the libdvdcss library included.

              I don’t see this as at all different tbh