In a message dated 9/5/03 4:06:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Well, as Robert Book pointed out, there is a conflict between laws. The >law >says fair use, whatever that means exactly, but now the DMCA says not even >that. Though the DMCA really only permits the prevention of fair use, >I >think. But anyway, it's a real stretch to call the current situation a >contract between buyer and seller. I guess they now have EULAs and such >with some media, but not others.
I seem to recall from my various studies of law that there's a legal doctrine that where an older and a newer law conflict the newer law prevails.