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Somebody seriously needs to make a test case out of this idea. I can
just see the headline: "EvilHackerTerrorist sues Symantec over
unlawful circumvention of the content protection scheme used by his
copyrighted ScrewTheDMCA virus!"
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:14:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OT] DMCA loop hole
Sorry this is off topic but this was way to good :-)
Virus writers can use the DMCA in a perverse way. Because
computer viruses are programs, they can be copyrighted just like a
book, song, or movie. If a virus writer were to use encryption to
hide
the code of a virus, an anti-virus company could be forbidden by
the
DMCA to see how the virus works without first getting the
permission
of the virus writer. If they didn't, a virus writer could sue the
anti-virus company under the DMCA!
[snip]
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