Re: [DMCA-Activists] French Court Rules Against Copy Protection

[Ruben Safir]

> 
> French court rules against copy protection
> 
> PARIS - A French court has ordered DVD vendors to pull copies of
> the David Lynch film "Mulholland Drive" off store shelves as part
> of an unprecedented ruling against copy prevention
> 
> The appeals court ruled Friday that copy prevention software on
> the DVD violated privacy rights in the case of one consumer who
> had tried to transfer the film onto a video cassette for personal
> use.
> 
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7645680/

This is the best news I've read in a few months.  Too bad that it
was the French insistance that we sign the Bern Convention which 
gave legal rise to the damn DMCA in the first place.

Ruben