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.

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