You might well be right there, if so it would be unfortunate. However IIRC not long ago the BPI (the UKs equivilant to the RIAA) promised that it wouldn'd sue home users making copies for personal use and backup. So even so home users can be more relaxed than in the USA (at least when it comes to music).
Vijay. On 18/06/07, Tim Cowlishaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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]/ > > > > > >
