[Year 12 IT Apps] Jailbreaking your iPhone and ripping DVDs: Both now perfectly legal

[Mark KELLY]

Just out of interest, most western countries' copyright laws are spookily
similar because they are signatories to follow the Berne convention (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works
)

On 29 July 2010 14:55, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Region encoding was never meant to protect IP from being copied.  It was
> just a way for studios to control movie release dates.  It's wholly a
> marketing manoeuvre.
>
> The source of the info was the Australian copyright site...
>
> http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit005/cit073/wp0042/?searchterm=dvd%20regions
>
>
> "In many cases, DVDs are region-coded for playing only in particular
> countries or groups of countries. Teachers can nevertheless play the DVDs
> in a  multi-region player, or re-set the region coding (we understand this
> can sometimes be done via the remote control) or they may have the
> region-code control in the DVD player modified so it plays DVDs from
> relevant regions. "
>
> and
>
> "The Copyright Act does not prohibit an educational institution purchasing
> a DVD that is region-coded for regions other than Australia, provided it
> is not a pirate DVD."
>
> and on http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit022/cit085/wp0072
>
> "The provisions in the Copyright Act dealing with circumvention devices and
> services don’t apply “to the extent that [a TPM] controls geographic market
> segmentation”."
>
> and finally
>
> *"Can I use software to overcome the region coding on DVDs?*
>
> Yes, provided you only bypass the region coding mechanism and not other
> technological protection measures controlling access to the content. The
> Copyright Act prohibits the circumvention of an "access-control
> technological protection measure (ATPM)", *but a region coding device is
> not an ATPM*."
>
> (my italics)
>
> On 29 July 2010 13:12, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mark - what is the source of that information?
>>
>> I'm interested because (so far as I am aware, and according to the
>> SmartCopying webste) it remains illegal to bypass the protection on many
>> commercial DVDs.
>>
>> The reason given for it being illegal would seem to also apply to the
>> region encoding. Different thing, but still a Technological Protection
>> Measure I'd think.
>>
>> from http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529 :
>>
>> *"SCHOOLS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FORMAT SHIFT IF MAKING THE FORMAT SHIFT COPY
>> CIRCUMVENTS AN ACCESS CONTROL TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION MEASURE* Most
>> commercial DVDs are protected by an access control technological
>> protection measure<http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902>(access control TPM). Schools are not permitted to circumvent this access
>> control TPM<http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902>to make a format shift copy (eg, by using software such as deCSS or DVD
>> Shrink)."
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers, ken
>>
>> TASITE www.tasite.tas.edu.au
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>wrote:
>>
>>> On a similar note, you should know that DVD region encoding has no
>>> support under copyright or any other law, and you are free to use any means
>>> to circumvent region limitations imposed by movie distributors.
>>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems; Reporting Manager
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000, Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

Webmaster - http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Author - VCE IT Lecture notes: http://vceit.com
Moderator: IT Applications Mailing List

Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what you
put into it.
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