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French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs

Posted by Hemos on from the le-excellent-move dept.

blamanj writes "According to a story on Boing-Boing, the French courts have banned DRM copy-protection on DVDs, because it is a consumer right to make a backup or to change formats (in this case, to VHS). Original story (in French) is also available."

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  1. Nice French Girl without DRM by Garlik+II · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.delcamp.net/forum/fr/files/barrios_limo sna_cecile.mp3

  2. this just in, inciteful NOT A WORD by jeffmeden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Second off, inciteful ISNT A WORD. look it up. yeah, its not there.

  3. Re:for once... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Two words. Vieux Boulogne

  4. Re:The French hate the US by amigabill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've seen some French films. For a while my employer had brought an employee of our French location to the American office I work at, and he showed us his DVDs if we were interested. I even ordered a copy of Bricole' Girls for my own. The French film Taxi was a great action film with a great chase scene. I hope the recent American movie also called Taxi isn't a cheesy ruining of the French one, but it seems it may be. I haven't seen the American one... I need to take some French language classes though and get better at following the dialog, I've unfortunatley lost much of what I learned in high-school French classes.

    Pity my Apex DVD player was crap and died (so did its two replecements) and I can't watch my DVD at the moment. As soon as I get my MythTV box running I'll be able to see this DVD again as the DVD drive is already modded to allow it.

  5. Re:for once... by pete6677 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google for French Muslims headscarves schools.