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Re: [DMCA-Activists] French Court Rules Against Copy Protection
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Ruben Safir |
Subject: |
Re: [DMCA-Activists] French Court Rules Against Copy Protection |
Date: |
Wed, 4 May 2005 11:32:17 -0400 |
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> French court rules against copy protection
>
> PARIS - A French court has ordered DVD vendors to pull copies of
> the David Lynch film "Mulholland Drive" off store shelves as part
> of an unprecedented ruling against copy prevention
>
> The appeals court ruled Friday that copy prevention software on
> the DVD violated privacy rights in the case of one consumer who
> had tried to transfer the film onto a video cassette for personal
> use.
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7645680/
This is the best news I've read in a few months. Too bad that it
was the French insistance that we sign the Bern Convention which
gave legal rise to the damn DMCA in the first place.
Ruben