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Adobe Finds No Elcomsoft-Cracked E-Books
dJCL writes "I noticed at BlackMask.com that the Adobe investigators have found not a single e-book that was decrypted by Elcomsoft's Advanced e-Book Processor, even despite the months of intensive searching of around 100,000 pirated e-books that they could find(i.e. something else was used to crack them). Just love how the laws have been able to stop people from pirating things these days."
It is kinda confusing if you read it quick, but they meant that it gives copyright holders (like Disney, or whoever) more rights. Not end users. As in "more rights to screw you."
The judges are supposed to apply the law is it stands to the case. IANAL, but if you're encryption scheme is simple zipping it up with a blank password, it's still illegal to try to bypass it without authorization to read the contents.
I'm not saying I agree with the DMCA, but there's no distinction between difficulty of cracking involved here.
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I read the story, and I didn't see any 100,000 figure. I also didn't read the method used to obtain this "100,000".
Sounds like you need to watch this movie. Remember -- gun violence is due to race-mixing (ask Charlton Heston!)
insert name of bill worse than DMCA
The name you're looking for is CBDTPA - Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Many if not most of the pirated copies of Photoshop that I've seen are *not* in the hands of 14-year-olds. They were in the hands of full-grown adults who simply didn't want to pay the $600 (or whatever) for the program.
Soon it will be legal : under the P2P Prevention Act or whatever it is called, media pimps, be it RIAA, MPAA or others, have the right to DOS attack P2P network. Downloading 100,000 files from a P2P network IS a DOS attack, you obviously aren't going to read them all.