Comments on: Spain drafts new IP law

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:31:31 +0000

As usual the politicians love to legislate unenforceable crap, that no one with any sence will take the blindest bit of notice of.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:47:05 +0000

Sorry, I wasn’t logged in..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:46:16 +0000

DRM’s sole purpose is to tie access to the media to specifically authorized brands of access technology. DRM can not stop copies from being made, just possibly render the copies inaccessible, a technique which none of the current generation DRM actually try to do yet.

What the dinosaur industry associations who are the sole beneficiaries of these laws (same concepts in Canada and the USA) want is a nice scam: they want the right to launch lawsuits, levy, and technologically prohibit the same activities.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:10:53 +0000

it is impossible to legally protect DRM while allowing private copying.

DRM’s sole purpose is to prevent private copying. Extremists in these cartels believe the only way to stop traffic on the internet is to prevent private copying. In theory this WOULD work.. in practice though, they acknowledge that there are a certain number of people capable of hacking even the best DRM on their own and seeding the net! This leaves the internet still packed with copyrighted material, and the average consumer screwed because they can’t copy their media into the formats and bitrates they want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:43:32 +0000

Sooo is this kind of like a DMCA law, cept for spanish people? xD

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:43:03 +0000

If my kid ever came home with a “respect copyrights” arm band on… I’d go into the school and shoot everyone in charge for their own stupidity… @_@

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:10:37 +0000

“It also turns [it] into a crime to publish [information] about the very existence of systems to elude copyright protection.”

And don’t forget to pick up your brown “respect copyrights” arm band at school next week kids…

Not that it has anything to do with brown arm bands… but I think Germany passed a similar law not long ago making it a crime to even discuss copyright circumvention in public much less publish such information.