[SOLVED] Media players licenses

I noticed some issues about software patents in general (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer#Legal_issues and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#Legality) concerning media players.
Can you suggest me a way to avoid those issues? Are gstreamer-based players free from those troubles?
Thank you
Last edited by work (2012-04-20 19:54:11)

Gusar wrote:My honest advice would be: Ignore those issues.
Agreed.
I'll give an example of why ignoring this is helpful. I bought an internal Blu-Ray drive mainly so that I could get larger physical copies of my data, but I thought that it would be cool to check out a few movies. I got a gift card for my birthday and picked up a couple of movies from a local retailer. I couldn't play either. What? I legally paid for the hardware and I legally paid for the movies at full price from the retailters that I used. I did exactly what a Windows or Mac user would do, and yet I can't use my purchases for watching legal content?
It turns out that if the designer of any player doesn't get charged as well, that things aren't going to work out for honest people using that player some times. So, when you legally buy a movie, expect that it will only teach you about all of the other licensing fees that were assumed that someone would pay. Do you ever wonder how the film industry in America had gotten so powerful that when the end user is still doing the right thing that penalties would still incur?
*** The American patent system is severely broken. If one needs any proof, understand that almost the entire human G-Nome is patented. Someone needs a gene sequence to cure a disease? It could cost them in the order of millions of dollars. These laws will need be broken at the grass root level. ***

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