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Sklyarov Case Exposes DMCA Contradictions

Posted by timothy on from the doublethink-tripletalk- dept.

aePrime writes: "This article on the New York Times describes how the case against Dmitri Sklyarov is bringing up some contridictions within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One is allowed to bypass security measures to backup data, but one is not allowed to write the software to bypass the security. It mentions how this first case to be prosecuted under the law may indeed cause changes to the law." A lot of bad laws have stuck around for longer than the DMCA has yet, but the more this kind of analysis is seen, the sooner sanity can be restored.

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  1. Re:Good to be arrested? by jheinen · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    "Many in the United States expressed outrage at the primitive brutality of the punishment. Even President Clinton expressed his dismay and criticized the punishment as cruel and close to barbarism and torture"

    Hah! This from a country that still routinely murders its own citizens. So where does execution fall on the "barbarism" scale? Is is more or less barbaric than caning? I know that I, for one, would rather be caned than executed.

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    -Vercingetorix
    "Necessitas non habet legem." -St. Augustine
  2. Re:Is anybody else by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Leave CmdrFucko alone; he is too busy whackin it to anime tentacle rape porn and compiling kernel on his iPAQ to write decent perl code.

    As a goatherd learns his trade by goat, so a writer learns his trade by wrote.

  3. Re:a common skill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    She is a dumb cunny.

    Honest to god, she probably can't figure out how to use MS Word and now she's telling us most people have the skill to circumvent encryption.

    One must assume she has big teets to hold her present job as I don't believe she has shown the requisite brain power to do what she is supposed to do.