Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 19:46:04 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523194309.04fb5160@localhost> 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>
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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
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