On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 03:00, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 01:57 -0700, Vincent L. Damewood wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Michael C. Robinson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Personally? I would just buy a Blu-Ray player box if I wanted to >> >> watch the things. Any real computing platform is going to make it >> >> way, way more pain than just pirating the content would be. For your >> >> protection, of course. ;) >> > >> > I'm not trying to pirate Blu-Ray discs. I do have a legal right to >> > circumvent copy protection for making legitimate backup copies if I own >> > the Blu-Ray disc. >> >> No, you don't, if the Blu-Ray Disc is encrypted. > > I respectfully disagree with you. A judge would have to enforce your > interpretation which is ridiculous from the standpoint of fair use.
I can't really comment too much about local law, and I am not a lawyer, but I can assure you that in Australia that interpretation is backed by at least some court precedent. Sad to say, these technical measures *are* effective ways of preventing people doing legitimate things with legitimate data they paid for. The concrete case, not tried to the best of my knowledge, but there have been a bunch of decisions both ways on what technical measures can or can't enforce protection. (...and we inherited your laws, as part of a treaty, so they are the same rules.) Daniel -- ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
