Slightly off-topic, but there's been a lot of anti-Digital Rights Management discussion on here in the past, so here goes...
Today the government announced "sweeping" reforms of copyright law: http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Aug/reforming-ip Part of that is the legalisation of format shifting; for example, making it legal to rip a CD or DVD to an OGG file for personal use so you can play it on your portable device. Currently that is illegal in the UK. As I understand it, the Criminal Justice Act in the early 1990s made it illegal to interfere with someone pursuing a legal activity (at the time, fox hunting; nowadays, animal experiments). So if the CJA makes it illegal to interfere with legal activity, and the new copyright law makes it legal to copy stuff for personal use, does this new law accidentally make most DRM illegal in the UK? -- Andrew Oakley and...@aoakley.com
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