The German magazine Heise Online has received a cease and desist letter today from the national branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) for publishing an article (German) on circumventions software. The IFPI, representing music corporations worldwide, claims that the article is illegal under the anti-circumvention provision of the German Copyright Law (§ 95a, German), which prohibits to make available, import, disseminate, sale, reproduction and advertisement of anti-circumvention hard- and software.*
Unfortunately, I do not know enough German to understand the original article.
Update: There is now an English version available.
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The article says that SlySoft published an update of AnyDVD that is, according to SlySoft, able to circumvent CSS, ARccOS (both old and new) and Settec Alpha-DVD copyright protection mechanisms.
The article continues that in Germany and Austria it is forbidden to circumvent copyright protection.
Regarding Audio CDs the article mentions that SlySoft takes the opinion that CloneCD is not forbidden in Germany because the protection mechanisms it circumvents do not constitute effective technical measures.
There’s an English version of the original article available now at the Heise Online site. Unfortunately I don’t understand (any) Swedish, ’cause it looks like I’m missing some interesting blogging (through your link list).
Brilliant! Thanks. And for your Swedish skills… Perhaps there’s something available from http://www.netuniversity.se/
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