On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Jeff King wrote:
In this case, the DMCA might work to one's advantage, since from what I have
been hearing, LinkSys and crew are in violation of the GPL, and these types
of copyright violations are what the DMCA was crafted to protect.
Huh??????
The DMCA was intended to prevent people from circumventing technical measures taken to protect copyrighted content. The GPL is a LICENSE, not a copyright. The DMCA doesn't enter into.
simon
I myself
have actually turned the tables on MicroSoft when they tried to invoke the
DMCA to keep me from selling my used MicroSoft software on Ebay. Yes, Ebay
initially pulled my listing but I was able to force them to put it back on,
since MicroSoft chose not to sue me (I invited them to). This is covered
under the DMCA.
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