Another DMCA Attack Looms

ndege writes "In this Wired article, Rep. Rick Boucher is finally ready to try and dismantle a key part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, said last July that he wanted to amend the DMCA to permit certain 'fair uses' of digital content, such as backing up an audio CD by bypassing copy protection technology. In an interview on Thursday, Boucher said he now has sufficient support from the tech industry, librarians, and Internet activists."

Comments

Re:What kind of research?

[regen]

unauthorized copy of copyrighted work is not allowed for research or educational purpose.

Use of portion of a copyrighted work (e.g copying a scene from a movie) is allowed as fair use for research and educational purposes. Copying an entire work is not permitted.

I have virtually no chance of getting grant funding to do this given the current conditions, so I stand by my statement that you have quoted.

BZZZT!! Sorry you lose. This is no excuse. If you can't get funding to do your research, either you keep looking for more funding or you don't do the research.

If I as a CS researcher couldn't get funding to purchase computers I need to do my research does that give me the right to break into other people computers and use them to run my research programs? Gee, I'm sorry, I couldn't afford to get my own supercomputer so I just borrowed yours.