Reading a DVD with VLC is now illegal in France?
December 31st, 2006 . by joe
I don’t know how this will effect the distribution of VLC (if at all) but according to Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, “Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.”
Just in case, I’ve saved the current version of VLC for safe keeping.
VLC 0.8.6 (Win32), VLC 0.8.6 (OSX), Journal Officiel (In French)
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