Norway Considers New Copyright Laws

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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solution

[scharkalvin]

make a copy of the cd but don't copy the copy protection to the copy. Rip the copy.
Problem solved.

Re:What if you have an iPod in Norway?

[swv3752]

It is more like, you buy vcr and video tape. You record broadcast TV onto video tape and that is now illegal. Pretty much defeats the hole purpose of the VCR doesn't.

Of course only after I finished this post did I realize I was trolled.