burn fests will still be legal. it is just curbing the "greenhills license."
the last time i read the bill it requires registration of cd-writers and similar devices we are currently studying it. in a few days will have our position. ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:17:04 +0800 > From: "Gideon N. Guillen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [plug] Slightly OT: OMB IRR approved, impacts on F/OSS > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Well, it seems that the Implementing Rules and Regulations for the > Optical Media Board has been approved. See here: > > http://news.inq7.net/mobile/html_output/20050202-26245.xml.html > > Copy of the law (RA 9239): http://www.ops.gov.ph/records/ra_no9239.htm > > I just noticed this line: > > "Similar to laws passed in other countries, the Optical Media Law > institutes means to regulate the manufacture, mastering, and > replication of optical media in the Philippines." > > So, does this mean even burn fests and distributions of Free and Open > Source Software, like Linux, is also regulated under this law? > > -- > Gideon N. Guillen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Take back the web! Download Firefox Today! > http://getfirefox.com > -- RICARDO BAHAGUE JR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are ... Neils Bohr, qouted in Nielson, pg. 27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
