nothing else happening in 2008?

first of all this is old news (as some one else mentioned this is 6th grade stuff in germany), plus can we ever move on? it is really getting boring.

oh, and btw, the article that i linked to earlier says that the part of the new copyright law which says that breaking copy protection or encryption is illegal is actually not new, this was already the case before.

new parts of the law address how companies have to work with creators and how creators of content get more rights for their products for any possible new devices in the future.

I just checked a couple of german news sites (it was hard to find anything on this) but found something on the site of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (which is quite liberal).

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/deutschland/artikel/306/134053/4/

the story there has a bit more details on the new law. the law still allows people to make copies of CDs and DVDs for personal use as long as those media do not have any protection mechanism on them. what makes this illegal is the cracking of a protection mechanism. this seems to be a bit different than what the variety article is writing.