CSS of DVDs Ruled 'Ineffective' by Finnish Courts

An anonymous reader writes "The CSS protection used in DVDs has been ruled "ineffective" by Helsinki District Court. This means that CSS is not covered by the Finnish copyright law amendment of 2005 (based on EU Copyright Directive from 2001), allowing it to be freely circumvented. Quoting the press release: ' The conclusions of the court can be applied all over Europe since the word effective comes directly from the directive ... A protection measure is no longer effective, when there is widely available end-user software implementing a circumvention method. My understanding is that this is not technology-dependent. The decision can therefore be applied to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as well in the future.'"

Obligatory Monty Python reference

[Mr Pippin]

...and there was much rejoicing!

Of course you know this means:

[Anonymous Coward]

Freedom Pastry!

You've crossed the line now, Denmark.

- The Corporate States of America

Freedom!

[Anonymous Coward]

Eat your Freedom Fries, lads! These Finns need Liberatin'!"

CSS?

[u-bend]

Duh, what do cascading style sheets have to do with DVDs? They must have embedded web content. That must be it.

Stop! I'm kidding. Put the flamethrowers away!

Re:Of course you know this means:

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Finland [wikipedia.org] != Denmark [wikipedia.org].

Re:Catch-22?

[gEvil (beta)]

In the age of the Internet, cracks can almost instantly become widespread.

Alright trolls, here's your once-in-a-lifetime chance to have your goatse posts be ontopic.

Re:Of course you know this means:

[mooingyak]

That's what those Swedes want you to think.

Well, then

[bccomm]

CSS is Finnished then.

Re:Of course you know this means:

[viking80]

All the swiss people in Sweden will take offense of the mixup here.

Re:Mod parent funny

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd suggest that the goatse guy was probably feeling a bit tired before it was first posted.

Re:Mod parent funny

[elrous0]

And what took you those five minutes?

I was furiously masturbating to it.

Oh wait, did I say that out loud?

Re:Heh, heh, - ooops it was Finland, not Denmark

[cp.tar]

it's all the same the us over here in Alabama.

I didn't know you Albanians even had Internet access...