On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:17 +0100, Matt Parker wrote:
Actually, I don't believe this is illegal to run in any country other than the US (possibly Australia), though I could be wrong about that. Just that the distro packagers have to be careful since their product is distributed in those countries.
That is pretty much my understanding too, one thing to watch out for is that my copy of Xine on Ubuntu actually wanted libdvdcss2 not libdvdcss (No I am not sure that the difference is either)
Regarding legality I think the main issue is that any open library that was obtained through reverse engineering of the CSS algorithm may be subject to legal issues via the DMCA. This is of course fairly US centric, I think in this country as long as you don't use it as a tool of copyright infringement you are fairly legal.