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UFC-Que Choisir (a French consumer protection organization) has been granted a prohibition on DVD copy protection devices by the Paris Court of Appeal, these devices having been judged to be incompatible with private copying rights.
Arnaud Devillard, 01net., April 22, 2005 at 7:28pm
What consumer protection groups have not yet succeeded in gaining for CDs, they have just obtained for DVDs. On April 22nd, the Paris Court of Appeal prohibited the use of DVD-based copy protection systems. The reason? The incompatibility of this practice with private copying rights.
Two companies, Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, thus suffered a serious setback after having won the case in the Court of First Instance at the end of April 2004.
UFC-Que Choisir latched onto the case of a consumer who was unable to copy a DVD of Mulholland Drive, a David Lynch film produced by Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, onto a video cassette. This person wanted to watch the film at his mother's, who did not have a DVD player. The strict familial context mandated for the exercise of private copying rights was therefore applicable.
The tribunal also faulted the DVD producers for lack of consumer information. This was not entirely absent but was judged to be insufficient. The label "CP" for "Copy Protected" was indeed present on the jacket, but in "small characters" and not sufficiently explicit.
A worrying judgement for the French Video Producers' Association.
Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal have one month to unblock their DVDs. At the same time, Alain Sarde and Universal Pictures Video France must pay 100 euros in damages to the consumer in question. The same two companies, and Studio Canal, must also pay him 150 euros as well as 1,500 euros to the consumer association.
On the other hand, the court refused the request for damages and interest by UFC-Que Choisir against Studio Canal. The consumer association admitted to a legal misstep on its part, having chosen the wrong target for its request. The court also refused to release a judiciary communiqué on the decision.
It goes without saying, however, that UFC-Que Choisir is more than satisfied, as the damages and interest were not the main object of the case. This was rather the acceptance of its argument regarding private copying. This, and the fact that the decision can be applied to other cases "as long as the original DVD was purchased legally," says Gaëlle Patetta of the association's legal department.
But for the delegate general of the Video Producers' Association, Jean-Yves Mirski, the decision is "worrisome". Not having had the time to analyze the decision in detail, the VPA has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision to a higher court (the Court of Cassation). But this is far from out of the question.
In any case, according to Jean-Yves Mirski, this judicial turn of events "directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive." The latter permits the use of copy protection systems. This will certainly not make future legal action on this subject any simpler.
If I was working late it'd take a lot of worry off of me, not wanting my dog to starve.
Google not promoting their own map app?
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Do a phone number or address search from the main page, and Google suggests you can look at Yahoo! Maps, and MapQuest for directions, but not their own service.
wirelessly networking a large outdoor area for as cheap as possible
Cheap as possible will result in as unreliable as possible. Look at http://www.smartbridges.com/ for wireless hardware. The outdoor models come with regular type-n connectors so you can attach it to a grid antenna to port the signal across the field as a backhaul (with a grid to recieve), and then have a second smartbridge attached to an omni antenna to act as an access point.
I personally, using these smartbridges and 24dbi grid antennas, have gotten an 802.11b signal to travel 12 miles with line-of-sight of both towers with very little loss of speed.
This can lead to slander/libel cases
Cannot not just as easily be classified as satire? Some of those comments were kinda funny.
In trying to find a funny comment, I find that the blog has been taken down. No word if the owners photos came forward or not....
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google's cache of the page is empty, here's a cache from one of those other search engines. http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.acme.com%2Fmail_filtering%2F&sm=Yahoo!+Search &toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&u=www.acme.com/mail_filtering/& d=205AEF5A14&icp=1&.intl=us
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http://www.allpeers.com/blog/?page_id=1
UFC-Que Choisir (a French consumer protection organization) has been granted a prohibition on DVD copy protection devices by the Paris Court of Appeal, these devices having been judged to be incompatible with private copying rights.
Arnaud Devillard, 01net., April 22, 2005 at 7:28pm
What consumer protection groups have not yet succeeded in gaining for CDs, they have just obtained for DVDs. On April 22nd, the Paris Court of Appeal prohibited the use of DVD-based copy protection systems. The reason? The incompatibility of this practice with private copying rights.
Two companies, Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, thus suffered a serious setback after having won the case in the Court of First Instance at the end of April 2004.
UFC-Que Choisir latched onto the case of a consumer who was unable to copy a DVD of Mulholland Drive, a David Lynch film produced by Alain Sarde and Studio Canal, onto a video cassette. This person wanted to watch the film at his mother's, who did not have a DVD player. The strict familial context mandated for the exercise of private copying rights was therefore applicable.
The tribunal also faulted the DVD producers for lack of consumer information. This was not entirely absent but was judged to be insufficient. The label "CP" for "Copy Protected" was indeed present on the jacket, but in "small characters" and not sufficiently explicit.
A worrying judgement for the French Video Producers' Association.
Les Films Alain Sarde and Studio Canal have one month to unblock their DVDs. At the same time, Alain Sarde and Universal Pictures Video France must pay 100 euros in damages to the consumer in question. The same two companies, and Studio Canal, must also pay him 150 euros as well as 1,500 euros to the consumer association.
On the other hand, the court refused the request for damages and interest by UFC-Que Choisir against Studio Canal. The consumer association admitted to a legal misstep on its part, having chosen the wrong target for its request. The court also refused to release a judiciary communiqué on the decision.
It goes without saying, however, that UFC-Que Choisir is more than satisfied, as the damages and interest were not the main object of the case. This was rather the acceptance of its argument regarding private copying. This, and the fact that the decision can be applied to other cases "as long as the original DVD was purchased legally," says Gaëlle Patetta of the association's legal department.
But for the delegate general of the Video Producers' Association, Jean-Yves Mirski, the decision is "worrisome". Not having had the time to analyze the decision in detail, the VPA has not yet decided whether to appeal the decision to a higher court (the Court of Cassation). But this is far from out of the question.
In any case, according to Jean-Yves Mirski, this judicial turn of events "directly contradicts the European Copyright Directive." The latter permits the use of copy protection systems. This will certainly not make future legal action on this subject any simpler.
If I was working late it'd take a lot of worry off of me, not wanting my dog to starve.
Do a phone number or address search from the main page, and Google suggests you can look at Yahoo! Maps, and MapQuest for directions, but not their own service.
wirelessly networking a large outdoor area for as cheap as possible Cheap as possible will result in as unreliable as possible. Look at http://www.smartbridges.com/ for wireless hardware. The outdoor models come with regular type-n connectors so you can attach it to a grid antenna to port the signal across the field as a backhaul (with a grid to recieve), and then have a second smartbridge attached to an omni antenna to act as an access point. I personally, using these smartbridges and 24dbi grid antennas, have gotten an 802.11b signal to travel 12 miles with line-of-sight of both towers with very little loss of speed.
The simple problem of 'Remember my user id and password' negates your simple solution.
can I please work in your office? please!?!
This can lead to slander/libel cases
Cannot not just as easily be classified as satire? Some of those comments were kinda funny.
In trying to find a funny comment, I find that the blog has been taken down. No word if the owners photos came forward or not....