__/ [ Timo Pirinen ] on Friday 25 May 2007 19:00 \__
> This ensures that decoding DVDs with libdvdcss in Linux is legal in
> Finland.
>
> <http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=102>
>
> 'Helsinki May 25, 2007 Turre Legal
> Free for publication immediately
>
> Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs "ineffective"
>
> In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled
> that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is
> "ineffective". The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new
> copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of "effective
> technological measures". The legislation is based on EU Copyright
> Directive from 2001. According to both Finnish copyright law and the
> underlying directive, only such protection measure is effective, "which
> achieves the protection objective."
> ...'
They could never police these things, but having DVD support out of the box
would be nice. Other platforms do not have this luxury.
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