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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:54

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<telford@xenon.triode.net.au> writes:

]In aus.computers.linux Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:


]> telford@xenon.triode.net.au wrote:

]>> It already happened in the US when that Russian guy wrote a reader
]>> for Adobe e-books that translated into text suitable for a blind reader.

]> Far as I can see, the case against the Russian has been dropped, and his 
]> company was found not guilty. In any case, I cannot see its relevance here.

]The relevance is that e-books is a proprietary format and Adobe
]believe they have the right to decide who can and who cannot read
]their format. The right to be compatible with proprietary formats
]is one thing we are fighting for.

The other case is Lexmark vs the toner recycler, who cloned the chip on the
Lexmark cartridges, and was brought to court under DCMA since Lexmark
argued that they must have evaded copy control devices in order to copy the
chip.
The DCMA is just a very very bad law, which the US companies are trying to
get adopted around the world.

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From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
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Subject: Re: Software groups warn of FTA dangers
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