I'm also NAL, (and have a terrible memory for these things),but doesn't the EU Copyright Directive include some sort of anti-circumvention language a la DMCA?
Cheers, Tim On 6/18/07, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFAIK bypassing DRM or other copy protection is perfectly legal in the UK and most of Europe; afterall, in itself it's not a breech of copyright. Thankfully we don't have an equivilent of the American DCMA so the media centre hackers have nothing to fear. (Disclaimer: IANAL) Vijay. On 18/06/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:28 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: > > Nah, because the technology-friendly minority of the world's > population will > > figure out both how to crack the DRM, and how to produce one-click > tools > > which strip the DRM from crap-ridden files they've downloaded. > > > > The world rejoices! > > Except they don't, because although the _criminals_ get an easy ride, > the honest hackers who'd like to work on media centres and other tools > and programs to deal with this content are scared away by the fact that > we had to crack the DRM to get at it. > > -- > dwmw2 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html > . Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
