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Article #360Re: Software groups warn of FTA dangers
From: Benny Cemoli
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:36
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:36
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Sylvia Else wrote: > > > Kieron Briggs wrote: > >> Sylvia Else wrote: >> >>> I am not convinced that a DVD player that just lets you _watch_ a >>> non-infringing DVD on your Linux workstation falls into the >>> definition of a circumvention device. >> >> >> >> I (and many others in the Linux community, as a browse through >> slashdot's archives would attest) disagree. The wording of the >> DMCA/FTA/FTA Implementation Bill is "access control". Snipped Provided it only > descrambles it to allow you to watch it, and doesn't otherwise make the > data available to you in its descrambled form, the device is not a > circumvention device. The issue about the definition of technolgical > protection measure doesn't arise. > It's inherent to Open Source that any descrambling code which will enable you to watch a DVD or DRM protected media will also allow someone to copy it. Snipped > That's certainly true, but I'm not sure that the law can do much about > it. Even penalties for abuse of process (which is what the amdendments > about general drugs amount to in my view) would be difficult to apply in > practice. > > Sylvia. >
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