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Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland

Cory Doctorow: Herrko writes in with amazing news -- it's legal to break DVD DRM in Finland, because the law only protects "effective" DRM, and DVD DRM is so easy to crack that it no longer qualifies: Our law firm's client was released as Finnish court today ruled that the charges must be dropped for the two defendants that had "organized discussion" of breaking a technical protection systems. According to the court, CSS (the DRM on DVDs) no longer achieves its protection objective. The cour...

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