On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:33:00 +1300, Earl Grey <> wrote:
>Mathew Good wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:44:53 +1300, Earl Grey <> wrote:
>>
>>> Nik Coughlin wrote:
>>>> New Zealand MP Judith Tizard has sponsored an amendment to New Zealand's
>>>> Copyright Act. The new copyright proposal mirrors the US DMCA and the EUCD
>>>> in that it criminalizes removing DRM, even if you do so for a lawful
>>>> purpose.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/06..._to_get_t.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So you will be allowed to make a copy of any cd you own, but you can't
>>> defeat any copy protection / rootkit installation scheme on the cd to do
>>> so!
>>> Judith Tizard is really looking after our rights folks. NOT !!!!
>>>
>>> It looks like Sony dictated the bloody lot !
>>
>>
>>
>> No its the US government, regarding Free Trade that NZ is trying to get, Plus the total ban on all
>> Gray Imports.
>>
>Actually if you read the link to the bill in the article it does mention
>parallel imports, affirming the governments position that it will
>protect the competition in parallel importing and that parallel imports
>are legit.
>However that is inconsistent with criminalizing circumvention of region
>coding which is a type of technological protection mechanism.
>Region coding puts us at an anti competitive disadvantage when buying
>cds online, and restricts our choices. Those are the unintended
>consequences of trying to protect the cinema industry from the impact of
>DVDs, the majority of which are never released in the cinema.
>
>Its badly drafted as far as DRM schemes go though, you can't have it
>both ways, legitimize fair use and criminalize the circumvention of
>mechanisms that restrict fair use.
It does seem to be poor on a quick read. How can you have this both ways?
The focus of section 226 will continue to be on the link between circumvention
and copyright infringement, and on the making, sale, and hire of devices or
information rather than on actual circumvention. While actual circumvention may
not be prohibited, any unauthorised use of the material that is facilitated by
circumvention will continue to be an infringement of copyright. Consumers
should, however, be able to make use of materials under the permitted acts or
view or execute a non-infringing copy of a work. This is consistent with New
Zealand's position on parallel importation of legitimate goods, for example,
genuine DVDs, from other jurisdictions. New provisions are introduced to enable
actual exercise of permitted acts where TPMs have been applied.
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