In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Smith at
Secure Computing writes:
>At 09:20 PM 10/29/00, Peter Wayner wrote:
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>>What is obsolete anyways? The question to me sounds like the one children
>>would ask: "how old is old?" Well, it's as old as you feel. Are Sony Beta
>>tapes obsolete? Most will
At 09:20 PM 10/29/00, Peter Wayner wrote:
>What is obsolete anyways? The question to me sounds like the one children
>would ask: "how old is old?" Well, it's as old as you feel. Are Sony Beta
>tapes obsolete? Most will say yes, but I think there are devotees who will
>say "No". I know that the
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>More to the point, if you buy a Japanese DVD containing literary works,
>such as movies or artwork or music or (given this definition) games,
>and it fails to work because the access control mechanism
>doesn't know how, that seems like a slam-dunk application
>for this exemption to the DMCA f
At 11:27 PM 10/27/00 -0400, Peter Wayner wrote:
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>>2. Literary Works, Including Computer Programs and
>>Databases, Protected by Access Control Mechanisms
>>That Fail to Permit Access Because of Malfunction,
>>Damage or Obsoleteness."
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>If you ask me, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD are th
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>2. Literary Works, Including Computer Programs and
>Databases, Protected by Access Control Mechanisms
>That Fail to Permit Access Because of Malfunction,
>Damage or Obsoleteness."
If you ask me, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD are the wave of
the future. If my forward-looking computer ca
We offer the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act Final
Rule on Access Control Circumvention:
http://cryptome.org/dmca102700.txt (149KB)
An excerpt on why there will be no exemption for
circumventing access to DVDs by tools such
as DeCSS:
http://cryptome.org/dmca-dvd.htm (15KB)
The two
