[geeks] DMCA wierdness

[Gavin Hubbard]

Hi Lads

Has anyone else seen the following article?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33322.html

Basically, a security researcher is being threatened under the DMCA for 
publishing the observation that a particular company's copy protection 
software can be bypassed in Windows by holding down the shift key (i.e. 
to disable autorun). Apparently the DMCA makes it illegal to distribute 
information on how to circumvent a particular implementation of copy 
protection - no matter how trivial.

Now I understand why we need organisations like the EFF.

Regards,

Gavin