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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. Ultimate ThinkGeek item... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The DMCA written on toilet paper!!!

  2. Re:No reg link by die_rollerblader · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope that link isn't an illegal circumvention device!

  3. well, good by p3bf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, bring it on. I can take it. More DMCA.

    Shouldn't we have a Code Red IV, The Voyage Home, where Skylarov travels back in time before the DMCA and can go home? A whale of a good tail.

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  4. ./configure by abe+ferlman · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

    tar -xvzf dmca.tar.gz
    cd dmca
    ./configure
    creating cache ./config.cache
    checking for extra includes... no
    checking for extra libs... no
    checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether legal environment is sane... no
    *Exit with error code 1

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  5. Don't worry by briggsb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congress has already passed legislation to remedy the situation.