CloneCD software wants to become legal again in Germany

Some of our members used our news submit to tell us that CloneCD wants to become legal again in Germany. SlySoft fights for the legality of the software in Germany. CloneCD became illegal after the new German copyright law. According to a legal opinion given by SlySoft, CloneCD is/was never illegal.CloneCD is not one of those programs which leverages copy-protections on music CD's.

"This kind of copyprotection is not an effective technical action according to the copyright law", is one of results of the legal opinion and  "Nearly every commercial burning program is able to copy protectet music CD's" is an other.

The used mechanism is not able to avert illegal copys, told SlySoft according to the legal opinion. Besides is "every commercial"  copyprogram able to duplicate these kind of medias. The Producer announced to proceed against the lawers who dunned operators of Fan-Pages which contained a link to CloneCD.

The text above is a free translation.The Full German article can be found at Chip Online. Thanks g3ri and JackiRipper2000 for submitting the news. A German pdf version of the legal opinion can be found on Slysoft's homepage for download.

Source: Chip Online