kingloui used our newssubmit to tell us that the German website PCwelt.de reports that private copying could be forbidden in Germany soon.
The German copyright organistation Phonoverbé¤nde
is planning to get the German copyright-law reworked. The organistation from the country that brought us Oliver Kastl with CloneCD and Ahead with Nero is also planning to forbid technologies to circumvent copy protections too, as well as detailed reports how to circumvent them.
Badly translated with Babelfish: |
Gebhardt welcomes this step and continues to mean: "important is that the evasion the guidance detailed by copy protection systems just like the spreading of evasion technologies and are forbidden for evasion. It must remain left for the right owners to protect their works from massive copying. There is also in the future no requirement on a private copy. "
However exist according to opinion of the federation still rework need at the government bill. Thus be missing for example "the statement that from illegal sources no legal copies may be made", as well as "express omission and requirements for information with copyright offences in the InterNet". Such a regulation would facilitate the pursuit of offerers of illegal contents in the net substantially
Well Germans, I think it's time to move. Elby (CloneCD) already moved to Swiss...
Source: PCwelt.de
