Archive for December, 2006

Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France

December 30th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

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. Today’s Journal Officiel (where laws and executive orders are published) says that [...]

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To peer review or to not peer review?

December 26th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

As an experienced programmer, I participate in many Free Software projects when time permits. I am committed to a few projects, and I frequently submit patches to random projects that I happen to bump into. I also understand the dynamics of free software: when a bug stands in my way, I often fix it myself [...]

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