Johannes schreef:
It can be even more fun. In the Netherlands (and many other countries) it is legal to make a copy of music or movies for personal use. So, copying a cd to your hard drive is legal, as is downloading a cd from your neighbour (however, your neighbour, offering the files, is breaking the law). It can be argued that schemes put in place to avoid the right of making a copy for personal use are illegal. Having copy-protection schemes has been challenged in court, but changes in the law legalized copyright protection. Yet, getting a conviction for breaking these protection schemes for personal use will be very hard in most European courts.Giorgos Pallas wrote:Of course playing a legally obtained DVD in itself is not something illegal. But technically speaking, in the course of playing it you maybreak other laws, for example the DMCA which says if I am not mistaken that breaking an encryption scheme is illegal. This makes it illegal towrite a player that circumvents CSS in order to play that DVD youpurchased.IANAL, etc. *but* IIRC, the German law says something along the lines of "breaking an encryption that is technically effective is illegal". When this law was passed libdvdcss was already in existence and therefore no one ever 'broke' an effective encryption scheme, since the time that law has been passed in Germany (and similar laws in EU). The fact that the companies spend soooo much money on FUD campaigns, while no one of those thousands alleged to break the law has been sued, seems to support my claim.
Sjoerd @Giorgos
So, ask you lawyer ;) >> Sjoerd >From this answer, the crucial part is the emoticon!
Unfortunately, no crucial emoticons to place in this response...
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