[geeks] DMCA wierdness

[Thomas Gallaway]

Eh screw the RIAA and the DMCA. I never going to buy a CD in my life 
anyways.
*pet's his vinyl collection*

I think what they are trying to do is a act out of desperation. They 
are never going
to win that fight this way. See the war on drugs.


On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 08:07 PM, Gavin Hubbard 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 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
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