Codec Buddy in Fedora 8

I like this approach.

Patented codecs suck, of course.  But if you can buy an unbundled codec for a popular format,
for $5-10, and use it until the patents expire (in up to 20 years), on a free system -- then
that's not so bad, particularly if there are only a limited number of codecs to buy.

Unfortunately, there is still going to be content that will be restricted to playing on fully
end-to-end DRM'd systems (eg. Vista or Mac OS X).  eg. BBC content.  That sucks.  Hopefully
consumers will get fed up and reject that.