On 10-06-04 02:22 PM, George Standish wrote: > Late last night I posted a question to the Ubuntu-ca mailing list, > asking if anyone could confirm or deny my suspicion that the new > copyright law would be bad for linux and open source. > > CBC headlines like "Copyright bill would ban breaking digital locks", > this sounds bad for DVD playback on linux in particular. > > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/02/copyright-bill-clement-montreal.html > > On a whim, I also sent an email to Michael Geist, detailing the > Ubuntu-Medibuntu situation in particular. Well, it turns out he was > both kind enough to reply, and was well aware of the Linux/DVD issue! > > Michael quick reply suggested that not much had changed regarding Open > Source since Bill C-61. > > A comparison of the two available at > http://www.scribd.com/doc/32485771/C-61-C-32-Comparison-No-Annotation-English > > Michael's blog post dated July 30, 2008, "61 Reforms to C-61, Day 28: > TPMs - Interoperability Exception, Linux and DVDs" detail the situation > nicely. > > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3244/369/
There is no ban on the current encoding for DVDs or CDs. This is because the government is charging a media levy on all blank CDs and DVDs. Because you have already paid to access them, you can view and copy them (to a blank disk, of course). Otherwise the government has committed fraud. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early & often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS. _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
