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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. Dmitry KQED Radio Show Fixed the Link Here!!! by byoungvt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    as usual I will have pictures and info up from tonights rally ASAP. Also Dmitry is the topic of a KQED radio program at 9AM Featuring the EFF vs. AAP. I will put the streaming link up for the broadcast on my site! http://sjrally.n3.net BJY

  2. Re:Details on the DMCA? by _anomaly_ · · Score: 4, Redundant

    http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/
    http://www.tuxers.net/dmca/

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    "I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
  3. Re:Details on the DMCA? Full Text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Here's the full text of the DMCA also known as H.R 2281.

    DMCA