[geeks] DMCA wierdness

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 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
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> (i.e. to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX). 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.

Gavin,

Now that you have repeated the information, aren't you now exposed to
the same legal liability? ;^)

I think YOU need the EFF too...


=====
Lionel

"I am not into examining other peoples' dumps..." - Sheldon T. Hall

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