-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is dangerous advice. I won't waste time debating the details of your post. All I will say is that it is up to each individual to make an informed choice.
To bring this back on topic, I told you where to look to solve your specific problem. It is up to you to choose what to do next. Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Burkhard W�lfel wrote: >> Am 15.03.2009 um 14:05 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >> >>>> The >>>> Debian Multimedia folks have codecs for this format, but there may be >>>> legal issues regarding the use of their packages. The >>>> responsibility is >>>> yours to determine if or which formats/packages may violate local laws. >>> In Germany this isn't a problem. It's not allowed, but tolerated by the >>> law. >> Seems like I missed something over the last few years. Could you give >> me a reliable source for what you are saying here? >> >>> [...] >>> but if you e.g. have a legal bought music CD and you >>> will upload a backup of this CD, for your own security, it's allowed to >>> do that. >> Not true if you are circumventing drm doing this. >> >> I wouldn't recommend to mistake Ralf's interpretation as sound legal >> advice. >> >> - Burkhard > > Hi Burkhard :) > > it's a legal limbo. I never heard that any people that provide css and > codecs by a Linux repository ever get troubles with the German law. Has > anybody in Germany using Cinelerra ever get troubles with the law? > Codecs are protected by the German law, but I never heard of criminal > prosecution, if some freeware coders programed software that is able to > play video and audio material, that is using non-free codecs. On a > German Linux board somebody asked, if he can do something, because he > has forgotten his user and the superuser passwords. Somebody answered > and a moderator deleted the answer. I started a discussion by private > mail and asked if I will be allowed to write again what to do, but I > wasn't allowed to do that. The argument was, that administrators are not > allowed to permit such security related howtos, because this will be > punished with imprisonment. This are old wives' tales, like the belief > that the GNU has any juridical relevance in Germany or you have to add a > "(C)" to pictures to protect them. Freeware and pictures etc. are > protected by the law of intellectual property. > > It's not allowed to upload illegal cracks and hordes of lawyers swamp > German law courts with inquires to check IPs. The judges are sick of > these inquires. You only will get trouble, if you over and over upload > illegal cracks or if you make money by selling illegal cracks. > > Here is a link about downloading videos and music: > http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/digitale/internet/597565/Freibrief-fuer-illegale-Downloads.html > > Do you know anybody, who ever get troubles, because he used a crack of > Photoshop? You are allowed to make a analogue copy of a DRM protected > audio CD. > > Okay, there might be a lot forbidden by the law, but a lot is tolerated. > On the other hand there are a lot of things not tolerated and strictly > forbidden. A German isn't allowed to smoke Marihuana in the Netherlands, > even if the Netherlands allow Germans to smoke a joint in a coffee shop. > It's because it's forbidden to do that, by the German law, anyhow I > never heard of someone who gets trouble when he told the police that he > smoked 1 joint in the Netherlands. You only will get a verbal warning, > even if the law says you have to get a complaint. > > I'm against cracks, even for my Windows I'm using freeware like > QuickTime Alternative, but I won't take care about any laws for non-free > codecs. I know that Apple planed to bring out codecs as consumer > standard, so that everybody needs to buy Apple products, but in Germany > we have laws against monopolies and to protect free access to information. > > Bill Gates got a lot of trouble because of such laws. > > Cheers, > Ralf > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm9/2UACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMUlQCeNVqVhwuY2TFPPIAb/Pxyik90 brEAoJDPXiCz5rn+eKThhYOqfyogLmOi =SUPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
