Copy protection (from NTK 2001-09-21)

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeremy Barker wrote:
>
> At present UK law doesn't address protection measures (except in some
> restricted instances) so there's no reason why you couldn't try to get around
> the defect in the CD that prevents it being played on a CDROM drive.

Indeed, although the European Copyright Directive will change that.  It's
due to be implemented as a statutory instrument after a Patent Office
consultation period - don't yet have any firm dates, but Martin Keegan has
been in contact with the PO and was told some time in next 2-3 months.
See:

http://www.xenoclast.org/free-sklyarov-uk/2001-September/000604.html

for more details.  If anyone here has heard or hears about precisely when
the draft will come out or when the consultation period will be, I'd be
very grateful if you'd post details here.

Julian

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