• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’d be fine with VLC having a way to watch proprietary Blu-Rays. I think it has that feature and it does seem useful for those who want to watch Disney Blu-Rays. VLC is supposed to be pretty much a swiss army knife of media players, after all.

    If you wanted to compare to the kernel then best comparison would be to something like proprietary drivers or something.

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      8 months ago

      We had to fight corporations for the right to decode DVDs and Blu-rays with FOSS software. This has been a major part of the software freedom movement. I don’t want to see a deviation away from principles.

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        8 months ago

        There’s room for both the principled take and the practicality. We have both FOSS distros and those that ship patent encumbered stuff and proprietary driver.

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          8 months ago

          And VideoLAN has been pricipled for nearly 15 years. I’d like to see them stay that way.

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            8 months ago

            VLC has been distributed with libdvdcss and patent incumbered codecs for ages.

            Beware: VLC media player binaries are distributed with the libdvdcss library included.

            I don’t see this as at all different tbh