http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2005/06/27/grokster/ random links, random thoughts, easier than maintaining a flat text file Mon, 21 May 2012 04:15:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2005/06/27/grokster/#comment-260 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 05:25:45 +0000 http://www.tetromino.net/blog/2005/06/27/grokster/#comment-260 [...] DADVSI (Droit d’Auteur et les Droits Voisins dans la Société de l’Information) is a French bill that was intended to destroy fair use. Think of it as DMCA on steroids. Can’t make or distribute a program or algorithm to remove copy protection from copyrighted material. Not even if removing copy protection is not the primary purpose of such a program (this is much harsher than the US Grokster standard). Can’t link to such a program or algorithm. Can’t even talk about such a program or algorithm. Oh yeah — and if you are found guilty, you face the same criminal penalties as for counterfeiting. At least the US DMCA is largely about civil, not criminal, liability… [...] […] DADVSI (Droit d’Auteur et les Droits Voisins dans la Société de l’Information) is a French bill that was intended to destroy fair use. Think of it as DMCA on steroids. Can’t make or distribute a program or algorithm to remove copy protection from copyrighted material. Not even if removing copy protection is not the primary purpose of such a program (this is much harsher than the US Grokster standard). Can’t link to such a program or algorithm. Can’t even talk about such a program or algorithm. Oh yeah — and if you are found guilty, you face the same criminal penalties as for counterfeiting. At least the US DMCA is largely about civil, not criminal, liability… […]

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