Unfortunatly, Norway is part of the European Economic Area (with Liechenstein and Iceland) which grants Norway access to the EU common market. As part of the agreement in '92 (or was it '93?) Norway is committed to accepting and adopting all new EU directives as part of Norwegian law. Exceptions to this are directives related to fishing and oil & gas, I think. The EEA agreement has its own watchdog and in practise, Norway implements and complies with most, if not all, EU directives even before EU member countries do it themselves. Norway can veto directives but in practise that would throw the whole EEA agreement in disarray and so there has so far not been any vetoed directive.
Upcoming and EU directives, such as the InfoSec directive, will force Norway to implement restrictions that will make it illegal to circumvent protection mechanisms, such as CD copy protection, and I believe this will soon affect Nanocrew's software or the user's of Nanocrew's software.
DCMA is coming to EU and that will include Norway. Soon we will look to Russia and China for "freedom".
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Unfortunatly, Norway is part of the European Economic Area (with Liechenstein and Iceland) which grants Norway access to the EU common market.
As part of the agreement in '92 (or was it '93?) Norway is committed to accepting and adopting all new EU directives as part of Norwegian law. Exceptions to this are directives related to fishing and oil & gas, I think.
The EEA agreement has its own watchdog and in practise, Norway implements and complies with most, if not all, EU directives even before EU member countries do it themselves.
Norway can veto directives but in practise that would throw the whole EEA agreement in disarray and so there has so far not been any vetoed directive.
Upcoming and EU directives, such as the InfoSec directive, will force Norway to implement restrictions that will make it illegal to circumvent protection mechanisms, such as CD copy protection, and I believe this will soon affect Nanocrew's software or the user's of Nanocrew's software.
DCMA is coming to EU and that will include Norway.
Soon we will look to Russia and China for "freedom".