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EowynCarter · 03-28-2009, 03:43 PM

French law is a mess for that.

At fist, we just had a right to private copy. Nice enough.

Then, the DADVSI came along adding a "DRM can't be overriden under no condition whatsoever".
Private copy becomes illegal, given the fact that all the stuff you buy is with DRM. And weird fact, we are still paying taxes to have said right to copy....

Then, the april (it's a french free software foundation), had a yell on that one. (As such a thing as reading encrypted DVD had become illegal :O ). -> Fine, getting rid of DRM is OK for interoperability reasons.

As a result, getting rid of drm to read on my drm proof reader is illegal. Doing so to read on my linux-only laptop isn't

Sometimes, i think we have it bad, but at least we're in a country where reading dvd or mp3 with linux is not illegal. (Not that i would hesitate a second, where i living in the US)

03-28-2009, 03:43 PM	#23
EowynCarter Wizard Posts: 4,338 Karma: 4000000 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Paris Device: Cybooks; Sony PRS-T1	French law is a mess for that. At fist, we just had a right to private copy. Nice enough. Then, the DADVSI came along adding a "DRM can't be overriden under no condition whatsoever". Private copy becomes illegal, given the fact that all the stuff you buy is with DRM. And weird fact, we are still paying taxes to have said right to copy.... Then, the april (it's a french free software foundation), had a yell on that one. (As such a thing as reading encrypted DVD had become illegal :O ). -> Fine, getting rid of DRM is OK for interoperability reasons. As a result, getting rid of drm to read on my drm proof reader is illegal. Doing so to read on my linux-only laptop isn't Sometimes, i think we have it bad, but at least we're in a country where reading dvd or mp3 with linux is not illegal. (Not that i would hesitate a second, where i living in the US)