Quoting John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:57:35PM -0800, kdf wrote: > > > There was a recent ruling in Europe (not sure if it was EU-wide) that has > > decided that copying from one format to another was illegal. This means, > if > > you buy a CD, you can only EVER copy it to another CD. I got too annoyed > > before I could read the whole article in that case so I'm not sure if is > was > > just intrduced, or final legislation. To me, the very consideration of > such a > > thing is just vile. > > If we're thinking about the same thing, it was in Norway, and it > wasn't a ruling. It's Norway's implementation of the EU's InfoSoc > directive. Basically, as you mentioned, it will be illegal to convert > a media from one format to another, so your IPod can only be filled > with music you bought from an online store that was selling MP3 (or > whatever the formats the IPod supports). No conversion to FLAC or WMA > or whatever your choice would be. > > Basically, it's Norway implementing an EU directive they had no say > in, that was put into EU law after great lobbying by the recording > industry.
Thanks, that's sounds right. I wasn't having much luck trying to re-find the article :) -kdf _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
