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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> The problem with DVDs compared to MP3s is that they require paying for
> DVD playback and for MP3s you get 100 free licences so unless you are
> going for a huge deployment your not braking any laws. 
> So DVD playback is pay per licence but MP3 is 100 free so its fine in
> most cases. 

I was always confused by this.

1 - What is "deployment"? The mp3 patent holders clearly define it?
The number of machines running Ubuntu, with the gstreamer-ugly
plugins, in countries where the patents hold is certainly higher
than 100. And it was Canonical who made those installations easy
by giving installation medias for free and hosting the plugins
in official repositories.

2 - To which extend the argument of "not installing by default" is
legally safe? Playing DVD without paying licenses is illegal, but
that does not stop Ubuntu packages for laying the libdvdcss there.
Why turning this script into a GUI with a disclaimer would suddenly
turn it illegal?

Sorry for the probably ignorant questions from an user who is not
a lawyer, but I never fully understood this subject. :)

(sorry, guys, if you think this is slightly off-topic, but this also
concerns usability, as in making those playbacks easy while legal)