WALL-E: Copyright Criminal
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
SFF Audio reports on WALL-E, the copyright criminal: “WALL-E records audio from his favorite movie, putting in onto his own digital recorder (bypassing the macrovision DRM on the tape). He archives the audio, he doesn’t merely time-shift it. He listens repeatedly! WALL-E shares his DRM-broken music with his friend, another robot.”. In New Zealand DRM is protected in law regardless of whether it removes rights you would typically have, and DRM is enforced even on public domain works. However, a recent study shows that New Zealand isn’t the worst and that the UK make it “illegal to rip CDs, doesn’t protect parody and satire, and puts a copyright on government documents”
