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Originally Posted by Iandefor  To the best of my knowledge, law enforcement generally hasn't tried to punish codec infringement on the part of end-users. A lot of projects operate overseas (for instance, Mplayer operates in Eastern Europe), so the best that law enforcement can do to get traffic logs is ask politely.
They could try to subpoena your ISP just in case somebody using that ISP has downloaded it (they'd have a lot of ISP's to talk to, in that case), but the sheer amount of data they were requesting would require them to go through enough red tape not to make it worth it for something as widespread and harmless as codec infringement.True. I'm just saying that you're not totally devoid of options if you want legal codecs on Linux, and $40 is still a lot less than a legitimate copy of Windows or OS X. |
I see. And after reading much about the subject, it seems the patent was once again used simply to corner the market and basically abused the codec patent. It makes no sense really and is a stupid patent after reading some of the ins and outs. It needs to seriously be done away with.
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