New Singapore copyright laws

P2PNet.net, 18 Dec 2008

Singapore has re-jigged its copyright law to help people with sight problems — and academics in film and media studies.

But the changes, scheduled to be going to affect on January 1, mean ordinary home users will be theoretically stopped from cracking old computer programs and games.

Users will be, “prohibited from using a password generator to generate access codes to play pirated video games or using software like DeCSS to make unauthorised copies of DVD movies,” says the Straits Times, going on.

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