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<blockquote data-quote="bradle01" data-source="post: 38146" data-attributes="member: 177389"><p>Interesting point, but I don't bend EU rules - I stick to them, which is more than I can say for rightsholders who impose non-EU contracts on broadcasters, and (dare I mention it again - please don't throw too many bricks, everybody) hackers who breach (in the U.K.) the Conditional Access Regulations 2000 by downloading (note, not using) ANY illicit software, be it for satellite, games, computer stuff, DVD, CD's etc, even for "educational purposes" which, I venture to say, would not stand up in a court anywhere in the EU.</p><p></p><p>There is an interesting (and I am told, true) story from one of the Baltic states. (I heard it at the EU conference in Stockholm from a lawyer from the country's Min of Justice, so I guess it's true). So I am told, some years ago, a leading video hire shop chain there met with a certain well-known purveyor of children's entertainment, and tried to get sensible (Baltic) prices out of the company in question to distribute their videos (then, now of course DVD's).</p><p></p><p>The company in question tried to impose its standard price structure only to be told that the per capita income in that country did not justify such prices.</p><p></p><p>The company left without a deal having refused to budge, and the Baltic entrepreneur headed for Stockholm where he bought up as many of the said company's products as possible and copied them for sale in his own country.</p><p></p><p>The company took the entrepreneur to court - and LOST. The ruling made it clear that market forces should dictate price, and that if the company had allowed market forces to do so, and the entrepreneur had then sent them away and pirated the videos the decision would have gone the other way.</p><p></p><p>The interesting point is that the country in question joins the EU on 1 May this year. If they had been a member then, the rules now might have been different for all of us.</p><p></p><p>Sobering thought. eh!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bradle01, post: 38146, member: 177389"] Interesting point, but I don't bend EU rules - I stick to them, which is more than I can say for rightsholders who impose non-EU contracts on broadcasters, and (dare I mention it again - please don't throw too many bricks, everybody) hackers who breach (in the U.K.) the Conditional Access Regulations 2000 by downloading (note, not using) ANY illicit software, be it for satellite, games, computer stuff, DVD, CD's etc, even for "educational purposes" which, I venture to say, would not stand up in a court anywhere in the EU. There is an interesting (and I am told, true) story from one of the Baltic states. (I heard it at the EU conference in Stockholm from a lawyer from the country's Min of Justice, so I guess it's true). So I am told, some years ago, a leading video hire shop chain there met with a certain well-known purveyor of children's entertainment, and tried to get sensible (Baltic) prices out of the company in question to distribute their videos (then, now of course DVD's). The company in question tried to impose its standard price structure only to be told that the per capita income in that country did not justify such prices. The company left without a deal having refused to budge, and the Baltic entrepreneur headed for Stockholm where he bought up as many of the said company's products as possible and copied them for sale in his own country. The company took the entrepreneur to court - and LOST. The ruling made it clear that market forces should dictate price, and that if the company had allowed market forces to do so, and the entrepreneur had then sent them away and pirated the videos the decision would have gone the other way. The interesting point is that the country in question joins the EU on 1 May this year. If they had been a member then, the rules now might have been different for all of us. Sobering thought. eh!! [/QUOTE]
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