on Blue-Ray:
blue ray is impractical for the linux It comes as no surprise that the linux does not yet find itself deployed on the blue ray HD DVD, for a number of reasons.
I think you will find after some investigation that the blue ray HDDVD is a patented invention that requires special decryption codes tobe utilised.
Therefore it would not only be illegal for linux to use the blue ray(not that minor questions of legality have ever stopped the Linux inthe past), but more so that linux does not yet contain the decrypter codes required for this operation.
And so for now, the linux finds itself constrained to the some what prehistoric CD-ROM format.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
Originally appeared here:
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=34261&messageID=630617&start=-9976
January 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
It’s spelled BluRay.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 am
Ironically, he is somewhat close to correct here. The modifications required by the AACS to satisfy the inane requirements of BluRay/HD-DVD copy protection would almost assuredly never make their way into Linux, so there probably will never be a legitimate way to decode these commercial disks.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Anyway… I still think he smokes pot before writting those articles…