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

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Fri Jul 23 12:24:07 CEST 2004


On Thursday, 22 July 2004 at 10:07, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > One additional thing: Swiss law explicitly allows
> > reverse engineering for compatibility proposes if you own
> > a product legaly. And as noone can prevent anyone from buying
> > a dvd they cannot prevent any reverse engineering.
> > Thus they would have to change 2 laws, which makes it even more
> > unlikely.
> It's just like the same in Hungary, at least until now.. dunno what will
> happen in the future, coz the synchronizing to the eu laws.

It's the same in Poland.

R.

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