DVD playback, YoPaaa!

I'm not blind...I've read a few things about DVD Jon in the past. Something about him doing a 'terrible' thing with the encrypted DVD's. And just because he wanted to play his own DVD on his Linux machine, he was haunted by some guys at RIAA.... I too, like the story about 'one small guy, and the BIG bad company who just wants to crush him'...
Of course I had to test if my Ubuntu Linux would play my 3 LOTR DVD's, it's just natural!
They wouldn't!!
But as always I searched the Ubuntu Forums ;) lucky me!! Found some question about how the Ubuntu community could allow to have a DeCSS script on the distribution....hmmm a script? Wasn't this installed default??

Edit: Before you try this, you need gawk +gcc installed

Tried the thing
~:sudo sh /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
It installed some DeCSS files, and now I'm able to play my LOTR DVD's.
Cool! Well, not that I'm actually going to sit down and watch it on my lousy 15" monitor, horrible speakers, and my armchair.... But it's possible :) The only thing I need is, a 500$ big screen monitor and a 200$ soundcard, instead of my 1000$ surround system and my couch....Like that's gonna happen...

Edit 2: As of 2007 you need to go to http://download.videolan.org