Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open source association challenges fines against DRM circumvention
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| On February 19, the association for the promotion and research in
>| free software, l'Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en
>| Informatique Libre (the APRIL), launched an action before the Conseil
>| d'Etat, the French supreme court in administrative matters. This
>| action requests the annulment of a decree completing the
>| anti-circumvention provisions of the new copyright law (known as
>| the Dadvsi law) which has substantially modified the French
>| Intellectual Property Code (IPC).
> `----
>
> http://french-law.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=1
>
>
> Related:
>
> Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with
>| CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a
>| software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or
>| mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.
> `----
>
> http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/12/30/reading-a-dvd-with-vlc-or-mplayer-is-now-illegal-in-france/
>
To be honest, the more of this kind of debate which comes up, the
better. The suggestion that playing your own DVD could be illegal
unless you use the "approved" tools is outrageous - this whole idea
really does need to be killed. Someone else observed that the main
reason why Microsoft are pursuing this line is because it is the *only*
way that they can make Windows Media Formats relevant or necessary. The
position of the BBC Trustees (the same people who caved to the "children
should pay for education" material) is much the same, somehow, they
have decided that they /must/ have DRM for video (why?), and therefore
the only possible solution is, guess what, a Microsoft format!
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