🚀 go-pugleaf

>> they aren't just collections of words that need study in abstract
>> detachment. The various cases we have seen in the USA are
>> exactly what we would expect to happen right here.

> Even someone as stupid as you should have noticed that we
> never ever see the sillier aspects of the US legal system here.

> Have a look at the Sony judgement for example.

>>>> The DCMA is just a very very bad law, which the US
>>>> companies are trying to get adopted around the world.

> And that aint gunna happen here, you watch.

> We've already adopted the bits of that that make sense for us.

> And binned the bits that dont.

> Most obviously with region coding of DVDs etc.

Ummm, Sony won their case on appeal, despite the ACCC trying to
stop region encoding of DVDs... I did watch and it did gunna
happen here. 

> Nope. Thats just what Sony claim.

Sony AND the Australian Federal Court, July 2003.

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   THE COURT DECLARES THAT:
    
   1.  On 8  April 2001,  28 September 2001  and 16 November  2001 the
respondent sold circumvention devices, as defined in subs 10(1) of the
Copyright Act  1968 (Cth), for  use in association  with "PlayStation"
computer consoles and the CD-ROMs for "PlayStation" computer games, in
contravention of s 116A of that Act.
   
   THE COURT FURTHER ORDERS THAT:
   
   3.  The respondent  shall not, by himself, his  servants or agents,
sell circumvention devices  as defined in subs 10(1)  of the Copyright
Act  1968 (Cth), for  use in  association with  "PlayStation" computer
consoles  and   the  CD-ROMs  for  "PlayStation"   computer  games  in
contravention of s 116A of that Act.
   
   4. The respondent pay the appellants' costs of the appeal.
   
   5. The respondent pay the costs  of the appellants as applicants in
proceeding N 738 of 2001 in this Court.
   
   6.  The matter  be remitted to the primary  judge for determination
of the appellants' claims for  damages pursuant to subs 116D(1) of the
Copyright Act 1968  (Cth) and for additional damages  pursuant to subs
116D(2) of that Act.
   
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases/cth/FCAFC/2003/157.html
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Maybe you were talking about some other Sony?

> Pathetic, really.

Here's a suggestion: read, learn, think, type (in that order).

	- Tel