French court bans DRM for DVDs
Found on Boing Boing on Sunday, 24 April 2005
A French appeal court just issued a ruling preventing the inclusion of anti-copying measure on DVD. This is after a man who was not able to copy a DVD he purchase to a VHS cassette so he can watch it at his mother's place. Which is considered private copying and is a consumer right in France. He got the help of a consumer protection group to sue the Film Studio that produced the DVD. Film studios have one month to unprotect DVDs (I assume it is not for DVD that you already own).
Now that's a ruling I appreciate. With that decision, more customers can request the same; in the end, this might result in the end of DRM in France. Well, either that, or the entertainment industry will avoid France altogether.