law against minidisc?

[Guest Anonymous]

i read about this on a danish webpage ( http://www.comon.dk/index.php?page=news:show,id=12741 ). supposedly this new eu (european union) law called 'infosoc', makes it illegal to transfer copyrighted material to another medium than the original. cd->minidisc=illegal. the law is applied from december 22nd. nice christmas present from the danish government...

this law will supposedly be passed in norway as well.

any dane who cares to confirm this?

anders

[zpeidar]

I don`t think that law will be applied in Norway, at least not initially, all right Norway is really into applying EU laws (through EØS) but when it comes to laws about computers, and information, Norway doesn`t usually apply them at once.

After what I`ve heard Reverse-Engineering is legal up here in cold norway. (as long as you don`t abuse it to make competing software)

I might be wrong.

Anyway such a rule sound just like the DMCA (which I am glad that we don`t have anything like here in Norway (yet) )

[Andy]

illegal to transfer copyrighted material to another medium than the original. cd->minidisc=illegal

So CD->CD is fine? That is pretty whacky I think. Also, think about what it means for other areas - if you were to write something from a book onto a piece of cardboard then you are breaking the law .

Recording a TV show onto VCR is illegal, but no one has ever kicked up a stink about it. I'm guessing they are just introducing these laws so they can accuse people of stuff and have a law to back them up. Whether or not they actually use it is another question.