Freespire's Google ads: "What is Ubuntu Missing?"

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:47 +0000, Andy wrote:
> reply doesn't seem to work on sounder, my mistake.

No problem, happens to everyone because sounder needs an explicit
reply-to-list (Ctrl+L in evolution). In fact it just happened in this
reply, I just was lucky to catch it in time :)

> I was unaware there was such a law in the E.U., when did that happen?
> I must now go kick myself for not paying attention. Maybe I should
> voice my disapproval with my MEP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Copyright_Directive
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4278.cfm


> I didn't think the E.U. had legally enforceable software patents,
> although some patent offices may grant patents they shouldn't

Patents, yes. But see above for the Copyright Directive. This at least
makes it impossible to reimplement any DRM in the wmv files and similar.
(Linspire AFAIK can play the encrypted versions). 
I'm not sure whether there are legal probs for unencrypted ones, or if
it is just too hard.