Bill wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm working with the Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition here
in Canada to fight Bill C-61 (The Canadian DMCA) and the ACTA
treaty.
I'm compiling a list of occasions when it is necessary to
circumvent various forms of copyright protections for
*legitimate* professional reasons.
If you have had reason to infringe or circumvent copyright
please reply to me off list with a short message giving
details of its type, need and purpose. All confidential.
tia,
b.
Regarding this Bill C-61, I believe circumventing any copy protection
mechanism will make the user a criminal.
That means, if I play a Compact Audio Disc I bought which has a copy
protection mechanism built-in (by Sony*, for example) in a Linux
machine, I would have successfully circumvented the copy protection (the
little program they have on the disc does not run on Linux, and IIRC,
neither on Mac OSX). Hence, under Bill C-61, it appears that playing
such CDs on Linux will be a criminal activity!
->HS
(*) I actually bought a copy of such discs a few years ago before I
realized what was wrong with them. In fact, I was lucky not to have
harmed my machines by running the discs in Windows (I disabled the auto
run feature from all Windows installations at my home comps).
Furthermore, it is easy to find via google how to disable such copy
protection by just drawing a black thick (about 3~5 mm) ring at the
circumference of the disc with a black permanent marker -- again, a
criminal activity under the new bill.
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