Monday, April 25, 2005

Boing Boing: French court bans DRM for DVDs

Boing Boing: French court bans DRM for DVDs:
"'A French appeal court just issued a ruling preventing the inclusion of anti-copying measure on DVD. This is after a man who was not able to copy a DVD he purchase to a VHS cassette so he can watch it at his mother's place. Which is considered private copying and is a consumer right in France. He got the help of a consumer protection group to sue the Film Studio that produced the DVD. Film studios have one month to unprotect DVDs (I assume it is not for DVD that you already own)."


Oh those wacky French. Who'd have thought that they had a better right to copy system than we do?

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