Open source association challenges fines against DRM circumvention
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| On February 19, the association for the promotion and research in
| free software, l'Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en
| Informatique Libre (the APRIL), launched an action before the Conseil
| d'Etat, the French supreme court in administrative matters. This
| action requests the annulment of a decree completing the
| anti-circumvention provisions of the new copyright law (known as
| the Dadvsi law) which has substantially modified the French
| Intellectual Property Code (IPC).
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http://french-law.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=1
Related:
Reading a DVD with VLC or mplayer is now illegal in France
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| Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with
| CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a
| software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or
| mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library.
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http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/12/30/reading-a-dvd-with-vlc-or-mplayer-is-now-illegal-in-france/
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