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CSS of DVDs Ruled 'Ineffective' by Finnish Courts
An anonymous reader writes "The CSS protection used in DVDs has been ruled "ineffective" by Helsinki District Court. This means that CSS is not covered by the Finnish copyright law amendment of 2005 (based on EU Copyright Directive from 2001), allowing it to be freely circumvented. Quoting the press release: ' The conclusions of the court can be applied all over Europe since the word effective comes directly from the directive ... A protection measure is no longer effective, when there is widely available end-user software implementing a circumvention method. My understanding is that this is not technology-dependent. The decision can therefore be applied to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as well in the future.'"
You're still thieves. DVD playing on Linux is not legal and never will be. This Finnish case notwithstanding.
"And how did the Europeans get all the good lawmakers anyway? I'm thinking about moving to Finland where copyright seems to make more sense."
They didn't, or have you not noticed the completely barely-democratic method the EU happens to govern itself by? Seriously, while I appreciate being able to legally rip DVDs, that comes pretty far behind basic rights and freedoms, some of which (speech, press, gun control) are openly assaulted on a daily basis at the EU Parliament level.
And, more to the point, this was a court decision, not a parliamentary one.
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
Only if you do it in a country where abortion is illegal.