Re: Copy II Plus would be illegal today

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Supertimer wrote:

>It just hit me.  Copy II Plus and similar programs would be illegal
>today thanks to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
>
>Did you guys read about the Russian programmer who is being
>held in this country because he wrote a backup program for
>e-books?
>
>It is illegal to even publish methods of defeating copy protection.
>They stopped a professor from lecturing on how he cracked DVD
>copy protection.
>
>How times have changed.

Indeed, they have.  ;-(

But this, too, is just a pendulum swing.  The professor did deliver
his lecture, after getting out from under the empty threats of the
MPAA.  As more people realize how their fair use rights have been
compromised by Congress, the pendulum will swing back.

The DMCA is _real_ "corporate welfare".

-michael

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