[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[Christof Buergi]

attila sagte:
> If DVD software development will ever become a problem elsewhere
> we can always move the servers to Switzerland.
> And no, i dont think that this law will be changed easily,
> people overhere (or rather overthere ;) like their code free
> dvd players and are already pissed by a law passed last year
> that restricts distribution of imported dvds until the
> license holder in Switzerland sells it himself, which means
> code 1 dvds cannot be sold until the license holder sells his
> code 2 dvds (beside restricting the selling of artwork for which
> no license holder is available, like stuff from asian countries
> who do not care about Switzerland)

</lurk>
This particular law has been mitigated on 2004-04-01 (no kidding ;).
It now says:

"Copys of audiovisual works must not be resold or leased, if this
impedes the originators right of representation."

In english: "You must not sell or lease imported videos, if the
movie's in the theaters, and there is no official video on the local
market."
<lurk>

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