Computer Misuse (Amendement) Bill

[Martin Keegan]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Chris Leather wrote:

> In the unlikely event that this amendment becomes law, I'd be interested to
> see the court battle between purchasers of 'copy-inhibited' audio CDs trying
> to play them on PC CD drives (who could claim 'failure' of their PC under
> this amendment), and the record companies...!

The recent Celine Dion "CD" fiasco (the disks apparently lock up iMacs in
some particularly nasty way - designed presumably to discourage people
ever from putting music CDs in an iMac) arguably *should* be punishable
by the criminal sanction.

Mk