From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 12:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95BAB37B404 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 12:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 3322 invoked by uid 100); 16 May 2002 19:51:06 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15588.3497.722035.755335@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:51:05 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? In-Reply-To: <20020516213942.A92810@lpt.ens.fr> References: <15586.61471.456290.764885@guru.mired.org> <20020515211922.J1282@darkstar.gte.net> <3CE34A8B.7D999E2C@mindspring.com> <20020516091031.A2259@daemon.tisys.org> <15587.56669.382241.766052@guru.mired.org> <20020516192546.B8944@daemon.tisys.org> <20020516193049.G79514@lpt.ens.fr> <15587.65524.899611.798267@guru.mired.org> <20020516210154.L79514@lpt.ens.fr> <15588.2033.334082.580672@guru.mired.org> <20020516213942.A92810@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <20020516213942.A92810@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan 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. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message