Interesting DRM Case in Finland - backing up of DVDs legal in the Finland despite CSS

[Johhn]

A Finnish district court has decided that CSS (not AACS) is not "effective" within the meaning of copyright legislation, so that circumventing it is not unlawful.

Take a look at, for example

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-finland-court-breaking-ineffective-copy-protection-is-permissible.html

Alternatively do a Google news search for Finland and DRM.

[Wilbert]

some more info about this:

Great news from /. (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/25/1653209&threshold=1):

We all know it is legal in EU to backup our CD's/DVD's provided you don't break any DRM. Meaning that you don't break any effective DRM. Thanks to the new EUCD. Of course, the main problem is the meaning of the word effective. When is the protection effective? It turns out that the Finnish court ruled about this: http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=102, with the following conclusion:

"The CSS protection used in DVDs has been ruled "ineffective" by Helsinki District Court. This means that CSS is not covered by the Finnish copyright law amendment of 2005 (based on EU Copyright Directive from 2001), allowing it to be freely circumvented. Quoting the press release: ' The conclusions of the court can be applied all over Europe since the word effective comes directly from the directive ... A protection measure is no longer effective, when there is widely available end-user software implementing a circumvention method."

Every member of the EU implements the EUCD in his own way, so we will have to see whether this case will set a precedent in the EU.