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Sklyarov Case Exposes DMCA Contradictions
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.
l33t j03 gets it right once again, as always. mad propz.
What'd the crowd do?
Q: When do you slap a midget?
A: When he tells your wife her hair smells nice.
I snapped this picture of the US District Attorney outside of the courtroom. This is what he thinks of all you bleeding heart, I want my information for free, fuck copyrights and patents, slashdot whiners:
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Oh, to stay on topic: DMCA must come down!
Damn, the NY Times publishes a pretty damn good article in defense of something most people here support, AND YOU STILL FIND SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. Do you really wonder why so many people are leaving slashdot??? Its not JUST Rob/Jon/Timothy/Michael...
Slashdot is responsible for what's in the articles, but not what's in the comments. They can't post a no reg link in the story, but it's not their problem if someone does post one in the comments.
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Muh-muh-MONKEY.
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.
Bubba happened.
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...
Your lameness filters suck and don't stop me from posting the shit anyway. So why don't you just give up and let us trolls post whatever the fuck we want?
You thought you could keep the evil goatse man away? You were wrong. So so wrong.
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