I'll See You in Court

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 08:06 am GMT -5 in News Briefs by Michael Cervieri

Here’s a bit of genius.

Danish law allows people to make copies of DVDs for personal use.

However, Danish also law criminalizes disabling Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies that prevent people from making their legal copies personal copies.

Got that? A contradiction.

Enter Henrik Anderson.

The Danish citizen made personal copies of 100 DVDs and told the anti-copyright group Antipiratgruppen all about it. He asked that they take him to court so they could figure out the law. The group’s lawyers never got back to him so he reported himself to the police.

As TorrentFreak writes:

In order to force his government’s hand on laws which allow him to copy DVDs for his own personal use, but forbid him to remove the DRM in order to do so, he decided to turn himself in…

…”I’ve started this because I don’t want to be a criminal.”

The full story about how to illegally make legal copies of a private DVD collection is available via TorrentFreak