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Elaborate Bytes to cease CloneCD development

Neowin · Jul 21, 2003 19:02 EDT with 2 comments

"Thank you for your inquiry. From August 2003 our program will be illegal in Germany due to new copyright laws. Other european countries will follow... thus we are forced to discontinue the developement of our software. Otherwise we could be sentenced up to three years in prison.

CloneCD 4.2.0.2. will be the last version of this copy software. We're sorry, but we have no other choice. Our company has moved to Switzerland, but we don"t know by now whether we will be safe from organizations like RIAA, MPAA, GEMA (Germany) there, thus we prefer to work on other software that is not forbidden.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Your Elaborate Bytes Team "

News source: CDRInfo