Originally posted by hyperlink
Published: April 10, 2008 - 02:29PM CT:

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New Zealand has taken on all these issues and appears to have crafted legislation with a lot for consumers to like. Canadian law professor Michael Geist points out that its anti-circumvention rules are quite progressive. Unlike the DMCA in the US, the new law allows people to bypass DRM if the intended use is legitimate, it explicitly allows format shifting and timeshifting, and it refuses to protect region-coding of movies and games.

As Geist puts it, "the anti-circumvention provisions are arguably the best of any country, since they are compliant with WIPO, limited in scope, and seek to preserve fair dealing rights."

Just after the law defines a technological protection measure (TPM, which is the same as DRM), it makes an exception "for the avoidance of doubt." Not included is anything that "controls geographic market segmentation by preventing the playback in New Zealand of a non-infringing copy of a work."

The bill grants certain rights to copyright owners when it comes to using TPMs, but it notes that these "do not prevent or restrict the exercise of a permitted act." The bill also contains a curious provision that allows "qualified persons" (defined as librarians, archivists, and educational establishments) to perform TPM circumvention for users after a user makes a declaration that the intended use will be legal.

New Zealand also (finally) gets the legal right to shift music from CDs to other devices, though this format-shifting right does not appear to extend to video for some reason. In addition time-shifting of television is allowed, though it appears that copyright management information must be respected (certain shows will be deleted after a set amount of time, etc.).

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Originally posted by garmoon:

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Chose to keep "registration info" when you uninstall from the program's uninstall and you don't have to fumble entering your key into the program if doing clean install.

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Edit: Chose to keep "registration info" when you uninstall from the program's uninstall and you don't have to fumble entering your key into the program if doing clean install.

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anydvd is worth more than the they charge as it gives us our right to fair use which big media constantly lobby to take away (dmca,ect) and with the way licencing is once digital downloads are the norm they will have eradicated the second hand market and stopped everyone from format shifting so ever time a new format is released you get to purchase it all over again!

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Originally posted by FredBun:

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Sophocles, on your subject that you needed to pay for an upgrade just once, that cought my attention, I have been with them for several years now and have never heard anybody ever had to pay to upgrade, unless I'm not reading something correctly, can you be a little more specific cause if I'm not mistaken it's suppose to be free live time upgrades.

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Sophocles, on your subject that you needed to pay for an upgrade just once, that cought my attention, I have been with them for several years now and have never heard anybody ever had to pay to upgrade, unless I'm not reading something correctly, can you be a little more specific

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I'm pretty sure the upgrade he's referring to is the AnyDVD-HD upgrade.

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It's worth it because AnyDVD keeps up with all the latest encryption keys, Does a good job of ripping HD DVD and Blu-Ray, HDCP is rendered useless allowing HD DVD and Blu-Ray movies to play on non HDCP ready equipment.

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Originally posted by iluvendo:

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This reminds me of the Mad magazine cat and mouse game of " Spy vs Spy"

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