VLC media player may be forced to stop develpment

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During the night of 22nd to 23rd December 2005, while everybody is preparing for Christmas, the French Parliament will rule about the "DADVSI" law. This vote will be made with minimal discussion, as an "emergency" has been declared on this law.
This law is the French transcription of the european EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive) text, which itself comes from the american DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act).
The main goal of this law is to restrict the rights of digital content purchasers. It most notably forbids them from working around technical content protection measures.
Doing so, writing or publishing software allowing to do so, or even merely talking about ways to do so becomes an offence that can be punished with three years in jail.

VideoLAN is directly impacted, most notably for its DVD reading capability (all Linux DVD reading software has the same problem). Should this law be passed, this would seriously hinder VLC's development.

The french website eucd.info collects a large number of related articles and documentation, and has a dedicated english-speaking section.
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http://www.videolan.org/eucd.html

damn!! thts my fav and i use it most :S :@
 
videolan is(now was?) very good indeed, almost the same if not better than the k-lite codec pack's media player classic.
 
Well then, I guess right-minded people like you and me should take up the development. Draconian laws like the DMCA and frenchy versions of it do not apply in India.... come to think of, no law applies in India.
 
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