Self Confessed ‘Criminal’ Reports Himself To Anti-Piracy Group!

Here’s a really good article from Torrent Freak of a person who is forcing both the legislatures as well as big content to clearly define the law.

Although countries around the world have a certain fair use law in the copyright laws, movie and music companies regularly try to either step into or totally erode these fair use rights in the name of “piracy”, if they cannot do this via paid for laws they try via technological means, ie: Digital Rights Management (DRM).

As an example lets focus on fair use in the U.S of A, you are allowed to make a copy of a DVD for your own use… but you cannot circumvent any protection that is put on the DVD by the content creators.

Which is as ridiculous and impossible as to skip without leaving the ground.

Denmark has a very similar (or almost identical law) that you may make a personal non commercial copy for yourself but you may not break the DRM that’s on the DVD to do so, sick of being labeled a criminal, one brave soul has decided to put the law as well as the anti privacy agencies to the test by ripping his legally purchased DVDs… and asking if he has broken the law.

In his self-written mass-infringement notice entitled “Notification of digital copies of legally bought DVD movies,” frustrated citizen Henrik Andersen confesses all to an anti-piracy outfit, in the hope of sparking debate on the catch 22 situation he and other Danish consumers find themselves in.

Full story and comments on TF

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