It would seem Glenn Henshaw, on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:09:48PM -0400, wrote: > > On 2010-06-04, at 2:55 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > > 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. > > This is true for CDs, but not DVDs. (It is also true for VHS and cassette > tapes, but not BetaMax or iPods. The list of media is explicitly listed in > the copyright levy legislation).
Even if it were true for DVDs, I think the TPM matter is tangential. Pre-paying the royalties might make copy music non infringing, but I don't think one would gain the right to legally defeat the TPM. -Ross _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
