Sklyarov Case Exposes DMCA Contradictions

Posted by timothy on Monday August 13, 2001 @01:23AM 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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Mean moderation! by rkent · 2001-08-13 06:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Shame on this moderation! If someone posts useful info as AC, for the love of God, mod it UP! It can't possibly be whoring.
Is anybody else by InfinityWpi · 2001-08-13 01:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Having trouble posting? I've already hit the ASCII art filter and the "this has already been posted" filter... apparently I posted something 270,000 hours ago that this duplicates... and having "..." counts as ASCII art...