Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:30:49 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <20020516193049.G79514@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020516192546.B8944@daemon.tisys.org>; from nils@daemon.tisys.org on Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:25:46PM %2B0200 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>
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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
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