I would have thought that if the ‘technological measures’ were ‘effective’ then they couldn’t be circumvented – If they can be circumvented then they obviously aren’t effective

In which case I wonder how it is possible to be guilty of breaking this particular law…..

What if EVERYONE turned themselves in as a pirate, wouldn’t that be interesting?!

It would totally swamp the resources of the police. They could never find who was a real “pirate” and who was wasting their time on purpose.

As it is right now, it’s the most clueless people who seem to get caught, or those with extremely bad luck.

I bet less than 1% of filesharers have been threatened by legal action, let alone sued and convicted.

However, his initiative calls the attention of the world for the flaws within the copyright laws.

In the end it’s just the old issue: the media industry has to evolve and find a model that has them, their customers and the artists as happy as possible… None will be 100% happy but there is a % that everybody is willing to accept.

The Police had better be sure to check those hard disks for illegally downloaded content and child porn, then he can be shown as a fool for protesting our perfect laws.

As we know all pirates are paedophiles.

For example many say that the world was created in seven days, because the bible says so. But the original Hebrew text uses a word that can have one of several meanings. Including that which when multiplied by seven equals the current 14.7 Billion Year age of the Universe.

Backup of bits that copy and exact mirror image of a disc are piracy now.

I don’t think people really grasp what intellectual property legislation is and how far it goes into their lives.

It’s not like you can actually break a DRM scheme that isn’t being used, right?

Which means that any way you spin it, the word has no use in that sentence. Unless, of course, they mean that it’s illegal to be the FIRST to break it?

If the industry ever allows for personal copies it will certainly be crippled copies and not bit-by-bit digital copies that consumers are entitled to by section 12 of Danish law.

It’s a good idea, actually. Either they sue him or they silently admit they have no case. In the latter case, he should sue them to have a judge declare he’s either not in violation of their copyright or he is, but isn’t liable.

I’ve actually grown bored with downloading any industry’s films/music/etc..

Just go wih the older stuff like 1954 movie etc. There is no copyright @ you can share all u want. Don’t be fooled though, as the entertainment parasites have even removed some of it though & I am guessing this is maybe a threat to them? Basically, copyright is being abused.

Bogus copyright and trademark complaints have threatened all kinds of creative expression on the Internet. EFF’s Hall Of Shame collects the worst of the worst.
http://www.eff.org/takedowns

October 27th, 2009
‘Hall of Shame’ Calls Out Bogus Internet Censorship
New Website Highlights Outrageous Attempts to Take Down Online Content

San Francisco – Websites like YouTube have ushered in a new era of creativity and free speech on the Internet, but not everyone is celebrating. Some of the web’s most interesting content has been yanked from popular websites with bogus copyright claims or other spurious legal threats. So today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is launching its “Takedown Hall of Shame” to call attention to particularly bogus takedowns — and showcase the amazing online videos and other creative works that someone doesn’t want you to see.
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/10/27

@34 “in effect” doesn’t mean what you think it means.

yeah! this story has entered the popular today section on popurls.com…

If I want entertainment, stimulation, education, etc., I usually just get together with real people, and stuff like that. I think that’s how we did it back in our tribal days. The best fun.

Now we’ve been REDUCED to mere
“target-market targets” stuck on a funfair duck-shot treadmill of “for-money modules” (think malls as money-modules, as one example) with a return on our hard-earned investments snatched out of our hands and shipped away to a nameless faceless shareholder group uninterested in local community-building, except as a kind of “marketing adspeak”.
And I mean that sincerely.

Almost all the music I have on my computer is now free/libre and what for-money stuff is left over is gradually being replaced.

I predict that, by somewhere in 2010, there won’t be a for-money item left on my system.

As I wrote this post, I happened to be listening to Michael Fyrek’s ‘Do You Think It’s Just a Dream’.

I would hope that the anti-pirate group would also be charged with aiding and abetting after the fact by withholding the info from the police….sadly that will never happen.

They are not effective, so I guess he isn’t breaking the law

In the end all it does is annoy all the user who buys the product legally.

I hope this chase serves as a wake up call for the culture minister and the different companies out there.

Nail him to the cross.

I’m not a lawyer of any country though, so I could be wrong. It could also be that the interpretation just depends on what country’s version is interpreted

Obviously they dont want us to make copies and would love to clearly define that, but on the other hand we have all the electronic corps the creat all these goods to sell and have sold us with the ability to do *exactly what they would tell us we cannot do, they do have quite the delema at hand..

Realistically speaking they actually have to allow us to create personal copies or go against every electronic manufacturer in the world…

yes “legitimate” people which means all non commericial file sharers ;)