Playing DVDs on Windows and *nix

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 12/11/05, Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>Meng Cheah wrote:
>>
>>>James Knott wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>My question is why is the video store selling or renting DVD-R to
>>>>customers?  Sounds to me like it might be a pirate copy.
>>>
>>>
>>>That said, in my experience pirated movies are sold more blatantly in
>>>Canada than some countries in Asia and I'm not trolling :-)
>>
>>I do not know if it is more or less in Canada. I can only confirm that
>>there is a huge market here for illegal movies, both on tape and DVD.
>>And I even know which mostly nationality runs it. They are usually
>>untochable. The media will cry about copyrights but the media is run
>>mostly by them as well. The police will confiscate illegal copies but
>>not from them. Well... thats Canada.
> 
> 
> If you are thinking of a nationality that might be associated with
> Pacific Mall, then perhaps you're wrong...  There was a big
> raid/seizure a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> <http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t402875.html>

Thats a good example of where the police will go. The question is where 
they will not go.

> If you look at a country that has over a billion people and probably
> dozens if not hundreds of subcultures, the notion that anything other
> than some fairly vague physical characteristics can be applied to all
> of them is just sheer silliness.
> 
> At the very least, you have the two contradictory extremes of:
>  a) Students willing to die in protests;
>  b) Government officials prepared to order tanks driven over their people.
> 
> Neither of those particular categories are terribly much likely to
> apply to emigrants to Canada.

In principle, I do agree.

zb.
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