From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 16 10:31:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F07B37B416 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4GHUnH39129 ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:30:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id TAA87691 ; Thu, 16 May 2002 19:30:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:30:49 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Nils Holland Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020516193049.G79514@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Nils Holland , Mike Meyer , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020516192546.B8944@daemon.tisys.org>; from nils@daemon.tisys.org on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:25:46PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 Nils Holland said on May 16, 2002 at 19:25:46: > > I should probably try to get some more in-depth information on that topic, > but from the bits and pieces I currently know, this is very insane. Seems > that some companies want to make *any* technology illegal that *could* > theoretically be used to violate the copyright. That's somhow like > outlawing ordinary knives, as these could (illegally) be used to kill > people... That's exactly what the DMCA is about. This week's lwn.net has an interesting comment: recently people have reported that copy-protected audio CDs can be played/ripped simply by covering their outer tracks with a black marker or a Post-It. If that is so, black markers and Post-Its are devices that can be used to circumvent digital copy controls, and therefore should be illegal under the DMCA... - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message