Slashdot | European Record Industry Goes After Personal Computers

Tom tom at ricardo.de
Fri Feb 16 04:38:49 PST 2001


Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> >examples: where I live, making a copy for a friend is LEGAL.
> 
> If I'm not entirely mistaken, one part of the legislative efforts this
> thread started from is *precisely* to make any personal copying of AV
> material illegal.

I haven't read the latest draft of these proposals, but the older ones I
read did not go quite that far. in addition, any such provision would
collide with mentioned right, so one or the other would have to go.
removing the right to personal copies would open a whole can of worms
that I hope our legislators don't want opened.





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