From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 05:42:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23293 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA23282 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 18113 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1998 12:42:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.5) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 8 Sep 1998 12:42:49 -0000 Message-ID: <35F52638.88AF77C5@pipeline.ch> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:42:32 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ben@rosengart.com CC: Mike Smith , "Daniel O'Connor" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 6 days to C-DAY References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Snob Art Genre wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Owning the disc does not grant you the right to copy its contents > > (which you do not own). > > You're allowed to make backup copies -- and given how easily scratchable > CDs turn out to be, that can be quite useful. You are even allowed to make your own 'best of' of your music CD's (at least in Europe). You cannot sell those CD's of course... The only problem I can see is the new US copyright law; it's no longer allowed to have/produce/sell technologie that enables you copy/analyse/ modify copyrighted work. Mybe the rawread funktion in the CDROM driver must be placed on internat. freebsd.org ;-) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message