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Norway Considers New Copyright Laws

Posted by Zonk on from the i-want-my-mp3s dept.

bizpile writes "The Norwegian government is considering a change to copyright laws that would make it illegal to rip a CD to MP3s when copy protection is in place on the CD. However, you would still be allowed to copy from one CD to another regardless of copy protection. Gisle Hannemyr, of the University of Oslo's Department of Informatics, responded by saying "We are going to be a nation of lawbreakers if this law is passed in its current form." The new proposal would allow fines and a maximum penalty of three years in prison for violating copyrights and engaging in computer piracy."

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  1. CD to CD to MP3 by donnyspi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sooo... copy from protected to unprotected CD... then rip to MP3 :-)

  2. Penalties by DarkEdgeX · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The new proposal would allow fines and a maximum penalty of three years in prison for violating copyrights and engaging in computer piracy.

    Bringing up the subject of a recent Slashdot article-- what's the penalty for actual theft in the traditional "go in, take it and walk out without paying for it" sense in Norway? Would the penalty for copyright infringement be worse or better by comparison?

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  3. A good piece of investigative journalism... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A good piece of investigative journalism would be to go and fathom out what kind of process would lead a legislature to introduce such an ill-informed piece of law...

    And what happens when they start to crack down on people? They gonna jail everyone? Will the police arrest people with earphones and check if they have a MP3 player?