You can't hold good information down. But in its heavy-handed efforts to protect copyright, the movie industry doesn't get it.
Buy a copy of the matrix on DVD and take it home. Play it on a Mac or on a Windows PC and you're in for a pretty good time. But play it on a PC running the Linux operating system, and the movie industry says that you're breaking the law.
Your transgression is that of "circumvention," a criminal act created by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You see, the video on DVDs is scrambled. Windows and Macintosh DVD players licensed by the DVD Copy Control Association contain the algorithms to unscramble the signal. The Linux DVD player contains these secrets as well. But since the Linux-based program isn't licensed, using the software constitutes an illegal circumvention of copyright management.
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