mp3s aren’t relevant, dahling

OK, so I totally pilfered Jill Walker’s post title. She’s written a great post on the new Norwegian laws on downloading, which say that one can only rip media for relevant formats. This means that one might circumvent the protection on a CD in order play on a car CD player, which is relevant technology. Ripping a CD to convert it to an mp3 would be illegal, since mp3s are not relevant to CD technology.

Be sure to read all the way through so you hit the link to the article about the communist youths dressing up as iPods to protest the law. Which, um, makes the communists advertisements for Apple, doesn’t it?