From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 23 18:54:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93A937B424 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:54:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18943; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:54:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523194309.04fb5160@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 19:46:04 -0600 To: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... In-Reply-To: <15116.1840.41725.498698@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523121004.050bea20@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010523114809.050d03e0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010523121004.050bea20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 12:53 PM 5/23/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >Typical glass pucky. Typical muck and mire. ;-) >The DMCA is a response to people simply hacking >around the previous copyright protection technologies in order to >retain their fair use rights. Not true at all. The "previous copyright protection technologies," as you call them (they were actually not protecting copyrights but rather restricting access) were hacked around primarily in order to steal, and occasionally for backup purposes. There has rarely if ever been any need to do so to ensure "fair use rights" (which, by the way, are murky and have largely been delineated by court cases rather than statute). --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message