Archive for August 9th, 2008

Google is fast!

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Wow! I didnt know how fast google scans sites and was very suprised when I tried to google with my latest bloggings title “Watching legal DVD’s on Linux claimed illegal“.

I wrote the blog entry earlyer today, my site is so far barely known, my homeserver a small one and there is a gazillion of sites to scan - google had already noticed my site update the same day! What I cant imagine is how much of power googles spidering uses to scan the internet through… beeing able to notice even the smallest servers little updates so fast… I’m impressed.

Update: By googling I found out that google actually indexes blog updates within couple minutes…

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Watching legal DVDs on Linux claimed illegal

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

I feel mad! I feel mad because of legal issues on playing DVDs on Linux with open source software. Issues that are really based on nonsense, misclaims and misunderstandings that I’ll try to address along this rant.

But first: I made a page with guides on how to install different players on different linux distributions. Only two now but you can help by writing more instructions. So please check out Full DVD support on Linux guide.

I decided to write this after Finnish Court of Appeal overturned earlyel court decision making it basically illegal to view DVDs on Linux. The basis on this is total nonsense but there are similiar problems on some other countries too. Let me explain why it is wrong, does not make sense and why (in my opinion) nobody should care about the software beeing “illegal” when concidering using linux system to view DVD’s.
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