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Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA?

Colin McMillen writes "I've recently had an interesting run-in with the DMCA... apparently, US Customs has rejected entry of a PC<->Sega Dreamcast serial cable into the US, supposedly due to copyright violations. This cable was to be used for Dreamcast programming for the Real-Time Systems class offered at my university. This seems to be a clear case of the DMCA abridging a perfectly valid educational use of a perfectly legal piece of hardware."

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  1. Ice Ice Baby by LunchLady · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Ice Ice Baby

    ICE ICE BABY
    (Vanilla Ice, Earthquake, M. Smooth) - Yo VIP, Let's kick it! - Ice Ice Baby ... Ice Ice Baby
    All right stop - Collaborate and listen - Ice is back with my brand new invention
    Something grabs ahold of me tightly - Then I flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
    Will it ever stop? Yo-- I don't know - Turn off the lights and I'll glow - To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
    Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
    Dance
    Bum rush the speaker that booms - I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
    Deadly, when I play a dope melody - Anything less than the best is a felony
    Love it or leave it - You better gain way - You better hit bull's eye
    The kid don't play - If there was a problem - Yo, I'll solve it
    Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

    Now that the party is jumping - With the bass kicked in, and the Vegas are pumpin'
    Quick to the point, to the point no faking - Cooking MC's like a pound of bacon
    Burning them if they're not quick and nimble
    I go crazy when I hear a cymbal - And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
    I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo - Rollin' in my 5.0
    With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
    The girlies on standby - Waiting just to say Hi
    Did you stop? No-- I just drove by - Kept on pursuing to the next
    I busted a left and I'm heading to the next block
    That block was dead - Yo-- so I continued to A1A Beachfront Ave.
    Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis - Rockman lovers driving Lambourghinis
    Jealous 'cause I'm out getting mine - Shay with the guage and Vanilla with a nine
    Reading for the chumps on the wall - The chumps acting ill because they're so full of eight balls
    Gunshots ranged out like a bell - I grabbed my nine-- All I heard was shells - Falling on the concrete real fast
    Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas - Bumper to bumper the avenue's packed
    I'm trying to get away before the jackers jack - Police on the scene - You know what I mean
    They passed me up, confronted all the dope fiends
    If there was a problem - Yo, I'll solve it - Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

    Take heed 'cause I'm a lyrical poet - Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
    My town, that created all the bass sound - Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
    'Cause my style's like a chemical spill - Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
    Conducted and formed - This is a hell of a concept
    We make it hype and you want to step with this
    Shay plays on the fade, slice like a ninja - Cut like a razor blade so fast
    Other DJ's say, "damn" - If my rhyme was a drug I'd sell it by the gram
    Keep my composure when it's time to get loose - Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
    If there was a problem - Yo-- I'll solve it! - Check out the hook While Deshay revolves it.
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
    Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice

    Yo man-- Let's get out of here! - Word to your mother!
    Ice Ice Baby Too cold
    Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold
    Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold
    Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold