Slightly off-topic, but there's been a lot of anti-Digital Rights Management
discussion on here in the past, so here goes...
Today the government announced sweeping reforms of copyright law:
http://www.bis.gov.uk/news/topstories/2011/Aug/reforming-ip
Part of that is the legalisation of format
The main focus has been with audio cd's in the news today.
They have not changed the law regrading circumventing DVD
Looks like they are not going to change current rules in regards to movies,
since most movies are available in multi format packs already (most current
movies come in triple packs
On 3 August 2011 14:18, Andrew Oakley and...@aoakley.com wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but there's been a lot of anti-Digital Rights
Management discussion on here in the past, so here goes...
Today the government announced sweeping reforms of copyright law:
On 3 August 2011 18:54, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Probably not. I.e if you have a file that you can Format Shift, that will
be legal. Doesn't necessarily mean the only legal file formats are those
that can be Format Shifted and it would be illegal to supply a file
On 3 August 2011 18:59, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 August 2011 18:54, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Probably not. I.e if you have a file that you can Format Shift, that will
be legal. Doesn't necessarily mean the only legal file formats are those
