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Date:      Thu, 16 May 2002 14:51:05 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1022010666.9f0010@mired.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc:        Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The road ahead?
Message-ID:  <15588.3497.722035.755335@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020516213942.A92810@lpt.ens.fr>
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In <20020516213942.A92810@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> typed:
> Mike Meyer said on May 16, 2002 at 14:26:41:
> From
> http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf (page 3-4)
> 
>    Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories:
>    measures that prevent unauthorized *access* to a copyrighted work and
>    measures that prevent unauthorized *copying* of a copyrighted work.
>    Making or selling devices or services that are used to circumvent
>    either category of technological measure is prohibited in certain
>    circumstances, described below.  As to the act of circumvention in
>    itself, the provision prohibits circumventing the first of the
>    technological measures, but not the second.
> 
> Goes on to say that "fair use" may sometimes require unauthorized
> copying but never unauthorized access.  Both DeCSS and Elcomsoft were
> about access.

Interesting. I missed that last bit about the act the first time I
read it. Note that this doesn't cover *owning* any of the
devices, just using them to "access" a DVD. If this is the part used
in the DeCSS and Elcomsoft cases, then it's the distribution.

So you're right that you can't legally play a DVD using
FreeBSD. However, you can make a copy to another DVD legally, and
then play *that*.

To strange.

	<mike
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