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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. Fuck Adobe. Fuck them till they bleed. by jcr · · Score: 2, Troll

    Yeah, I know they recanted after the EFF pointed out to them that this fracas has made people all over the world hate them, but god DAMN it, they caused this mess and the very least they could do if they were serious about making amends is PAY FOR DMITRY'S DEFENSE.

    Until and unless they do something more than say, "Oops, we're sorry we called in the jackbooted thugs, but it's of our hands now, and gosh, we really wish they would just let him go!", I say Adobe deserves to be on all of our shit lists, even above MicroSquish.

    Would someone please re-post the names of the perps who fucked Dmitry over? Let's start with that incompetent prick who decided to call in the thugs instead of FIXING the crypto in his pathetic excuse for a product.

    -jcr

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  2. Adobe products are pretty garbage anyway by tre · · Score: 0, Troll

    Free him, and don't buy Adobe Anything Version whatever. When there's free and opensource image editing programs available why even deal with Adobe, and we all know the popularity of eBooks... PDF's... wow. that's something to sue over.

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  3. Details on the DMCA? by xZAQx · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hey does anyone out there have a link to the provisions/highlights of the DMCA? I'm pretty ignorant of just how 'insideous' it is

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    1. Re:Details on the DMCA? by xZAQx · · Score: 0, Troll

      WTF? Why am I a troll? I asked a question! And then people give me information and milk mod points off of my question. My question produces like 12 mod points for other people, and I'm a troll? Oh, wait, let me guess, this is a troll too?

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  4. Re:Let my people go by psychalgia · · Score: 0, Troll

    you jackass, its defense contractors convention, not "script kiddies hack atms convention."

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  5. Fuck That Moderator. by jcr · · Score: 1, Troll

    That was NOT a troll. I am completely sincere in this, and I will not be doing ANY business with Adobe until they have made amends. As far as I'm concerned, they have a long way to go to make up for the damage they've done.

    -jcr

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  6. Let my people go by T1girl · · Score: 3, Troll

    Would someone please just let this poor guy go home to his wife and kids and sort this all out later?