Re:[Potential troll] What DviX is really used for (Score 1)

Uh.. I read the article at tomshardware.com too and I'm afraid Doctor Tom conveniently left out the part of the process where you have to use DeCSS to decrypt the .vob files off of a typical commercial DVD. I've been tinkering around with DivX;) for a while now and I've found that several DeCSS workalike programs (all equally illegal) have sprung up, including a hacked version of Flask MPEG called "Flask MPEG + DeCSS" (should be self-explanatory). Contrary to the impression one got from reading Tom's half-assed (but well meant) how-to, encoding a *high quality* DivX movie requires a *lot* of effort and skill, and the real pros use a lot more tools than just Flask MPEG (e.g. dvd2mpeg, virtualdub, etc.). *Watching* DivX .avi's though, is quite easy: all you have to do is download the DivX codec, double-click on it, and BAM! your Windows Media Player is transformed into Pirated Media Player. Still thinking that piracy doesn't exist because the files are too big to download? Go check out the treasure trove of DivX movies available via Scour Exchange. I'm a big fan of your sacred gnutella too, and I ain't using it to swap PGP love notes with oppressed dissidents in Tibet or whatever the hell slashbots think its for!!! BTW, I think its funny how slashdotters really don't want to accept the fact that DeCSS as it really exists (its a Win32 executable you idiots!) actually *is* a piracy tool, and not some kind of martyred open-source poster child. All these linux geeks wearing DeCSS T-shirts are like poor dumb Jane Fonda sitting on top of a North Vietnamese tank in back in the 60's - suckers spreading propaganda for criminals! Say it ain't so? Then where the hell is this Linux DVD player that was supposed to materialize once the open-sourcerers got a hold of DeCSS? LiViD you say? Check out their website - last time I looked they didn't have squat that a human could use for software, just a bunch of half-baked libs and snapshots and alphas/betas and CVS crap. They've had *months* man! If you want to watch DVDs without M$ tainting your box your best bet is to download the nifty QNX Real Time Development Platform or whatever its called; its "free" but it ain't exactly opensource. If anyone knows how they managed to slip a free (as in beer) DVD player into QNX, I'd love to know. Once again the joke is on all those linux geeks who hacked their I-Opener to put linux on it. They threw the baby out with the bathwater! They would have been better served tossing the I-Opener toy in the trash and hacking the sweet QNX OS instead! It's tight, fast, stable and its got web browser, email, editor, dev tools, X-windows compatibility, music and video players.... You can download the whole QNX .iso and burn it in a jiffy - it's only ~100MB. Who's got the "bloatware" now Linus? Oops this is turning into a rant...note to self: no more bloody marys when posting to slashdot..