All,
For those of you who read slashdot will have seen the reference to the following article.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/intprop/news/copyright....
the way I understand this is that it is now illegal to circumvent copy protection on media, such as the norwegain student(jon johassan I think) did last year to the DVD spec. This is a very dark day if I have understood this right. The big companies are the winners in this case and it posses a massive threat to linux, under this act, it could be illegal for us to use DeCSS, and it certainly will be when the DVD replacement arives. This leaves me with a question, what can we do about it? our rights are steadily being eroded, the RIP bill etc... yet these bills are being snuck in very quietly. Can anyone suggest a course of action to prevent this from continueing?
Thanks
D
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