From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 19:43:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25354 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25090; Sun, 3 May 1998 19:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA27442; Sun, 3 May 1998 22:41:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 22:41:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Eivind Eklund cc: Matthew Hunt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <19980504041342.42915@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > Blocking software a la ijb only end up repeating the endless war between > crackers/pirates (that's you), and those writing copy/content protection. I beg your pardon. I don't believe that you have any valid basis for calling me a cracker/pirate. You've gone a bit too far too quickly on your moral high horse. > I don't even remember if that was the correct case. I remember that > there is a California statute against 'instruments for crime' or > information which makes things work as an instrument for crime; I'm not > certain if it came up in the Neidorf case. I remember having seen it in > use about 5 years ago, and I think I remember it being in CUD. I'd have > to dig through old CUDs to find it - I haven't saved them (I haven't > read CUD for 5 years or so, so it is some time ago). This isn't the 'criminal paraphernalia' (most of the junk I haul around in my backsack could be considered such) is it? Thats so broad as to be absurd. However, since you seem to be a practicing copyright lawyer I'll have to defer my opinions and conjecture on this issue to your expert judgements. :) /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message