links for 2008-01-10

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  1. Nick Palmer

    Re: UK wants to make CD rips legal (at last):

    You haven’t included the other shoe that dropped with this proposal; although they propose to make personal copying legal, it will be illegal (as in a criminal offence) to circumvent any copy protection measures on the CDs in question to exercise that right. Consequently, we’ll be in the same position as the US with the DMCA – you have a right to fair use, but you can’t exercise it, because the stuff you want to fairly use is copy-protected, and if you get around that you go to jail. The only winners here aren’t consumers, they’re the media companies.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/copyright_reform/

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