Hello George I do not believe there a issued with Ubuntu and playing DVD. Only because it is the play it self is locked dowm but if the dvdcss and the right codec's for the player it works. You will need to do this if you want play a family video as will I do not see why that will be illegal . If it was true they banning a people from watching home made video on there ubuntu systems. I will like to be in court one day if any one was charged with the new law to contest the law. I will call it a infringement of our human liberates as a Canadian citizen if we can't put a player in our Ubuntu systems. Can any one tell me the process of play dvd's in new Microsoft system is there any downloading of codecs . Then the goverment will have crackdown on Microsoft products as will and that will not happen. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Standish" <george [ dot ] standish [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca Sent: Friday, June 4, 2010 2:22:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] New Copyright Bill C-32 Late last night I posted a question to the Ubuntu-ca mailing list, asking if anyone could confirm or deny my suspicion that the new copyright law would be bad for linux and open source. CBC headlines like "Copyright bill would ban breaking digital locks", this sounds bad for DVD playback on linux in particular. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/02/copyright-bill-clement-montreal.html On a whim, I also sent an email to Michael Geist, detailing the Ubuntu-Medibuntu situation in particular. Well, it turns out he was both kind enough to reply, and was well aware of the Linux/DVD issue! Michael quick reply suggested that not much had changed regarding Open Source since Bill C-61. A comparison of the two available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/32485771/C-61-C-32-Comparison-No-Annotation-English Michael's blog post dated July 30, 2008, "61 Reforms to C-61, Day 28: TPMs - Interoperability Exception, Linux and DVDs" detail the situation nicely. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3244/369/ _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux