New Copyright law implications for DVD on Linux?

[Mathieu Charron]

Up to a cerrtain point, can someone claim that an autorun.inf is their
digital lock thus making illegal to run their disk on linux and mac
(well, anything not Windows). Or even disable the autorun feature?

For some reason I think this bill was not even writen by someone that
is aware of the internet (makes me think of a trade mark claim where
the trade mark office can't  check on the internet for the presence of
a given name).

On 04/06/2010, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:15 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 41.12 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not ap-
>> ply to a person who owns a computer program
>> or a copy of one, or has a licence to use the pro-
>> gram or copy, and who circumvents a techno-
>> logical protection measure that protects that
>> program or copy for the sole purpose of obtain-
>> ing information that would allow the person to
>> make the program and any other computer pro-
>> gram interoperable.
>
> This wording makes it legal to play a DVD on Linux *if and only if*
> you also have a Windows machine with licensed DVD playback software,
> AFAICT.
>
>  - Tony
>
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