[Sussex] We can screen it! - portable projector

[Mark Harrison]

> I've just had a really, really geeky idea.  If I was to bring my
> MeshAP box too then we could broadcast it over a WiFi network
> to a number of lappies which in-turn are plugged in the number of
> projectors we have.  Can you do this with the Windoz software? Or
> does the copy projection stop you?

You cannot do this with the Microsoft-supplied media-player if the DVD movie in
question uses CSS protection.

You CAN do this with third-party, closed-source tools on the Windows platform,
however.


> A nice advert for Open Source
> not infringing upon you legal rights.

I thought that we were a UK LUG???

You do NOT have the legal right to broadcast a movie around a network without
the copyright holder's permission. You do not have the right to play a movie in
a public place without the copyright holder's permission. Hence the need to get
the permission, which we have done.

The concept of "fair use" is a US concept - it does not exist in UK law.

M.