Just read this story over at CDFreaks and wanted to know if this has any impact on the Forum. I know that other forums just disappear for these very reasons. http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12537
-ireland- DVDXCopy Chief Moderator also posted this http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/243380 I really hope not since it was devastating what happend to dvd decrypters forums. I hope someone can shed a little light and give us the "Not to worry" sign.
i wouldn't panic just yet, there are plenty of other topics to discuss here, it aint like people stay on topic anyway. if i do hear anything i will pass on the info.
We're extremely aware of this and have been, first time ever, very active politically to fight the bill and helped to push the controversy to mainstream media in Finland before the parliament vote (well, in small country like Finland, we are big part of mainstream media , but it unfortunately didn't help. And as we're extremely well-known in Finland, it is obvious that we're first ones in line when the legislation comes into effect. The date has not been set yet, although it is 99% certain that president will approve the bill, despite public opinion against it. Ministry of education expects the law to come into effect around beginning of December or 1st of January, 2006. We're in progress of finding alternative solutions for this dilemma and we will keep you posted when something happens. About 90% of the latest news in our Finnish site have been about this topic
So does that mean the whole site will have to close or will discussions about piracy, backing up media for your own use, copy protection etc. be removed from the site. I really don't want AD to end. This truely is the best site on the net today. There must be a way to counter the law or something.
I'm panicing already!I made new friends here! my day starts with reading AD and it also ends reading AD! Life won't be the same if this goes down!
@IHoe I feel your panic, and agree. AD is like my morning and evening dvd newspaper. We will all be like those hurricane evacuees looking for a new home.
It wont, we will find a solution and if someone plans to take us to court, we wont give in, but give a good fight instead. You wont see a situation where we'd announce "ohmigod, they threatened to take us to court, thus we shut down". No, if somebody states they'll drag us to court, we will call their game and go there. We have accomplished simply too much to give up too easily. But yes, as a first option, we will look into options to circumvent the law that prevents circumvention of copy protections =)
Would the easiest solution not be to find a country that does not have such tight laws and start hosting there to avoid going to court?
Right now it seems like the best idea to avoid money hungry lawyers. Whatever happens aD has our support
Since the movie companies have realized they have a goldmine in DVD sales, they now want to squeeze every last drop out of the consumer, heaven forbid they should loose a penny.
now we go into the grey areas of big business.... arnie. Why do they sell us writers just to make laws on how you can use them? You opened up the can, Arnie..... now all the worms can get out! LOL
Moving servers is not the pain, moving company would be a pain and also, it might still need to move the people who maintain the site as well, as we don't exactly operate anonymously. And the good thing is that legal costs in Finland aren't that excessive, if we have to go through that process. But as said, even though we are the ones in line here, I'm not losing sleep over the issue, I'm confident that we'll find a solution and obviously, we will update you when it happens. There's still small bureaucratic chance that the law would get delayed.
ddp: The problem with president's veto is that Finland reduced the president's powers dramatically in '90s and now, if president vetos the law once, it goes back to parliament. If parliament approves it again without modifications, it gets automatically approved, without president. Thus, president's role in approving laws is purely cosmetic.
