Fighting Spam - Using the DMCA for Good?

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 10, 2003 @04:45PM from the smacking-your-friendly-neighborhood-spammer dept.

Tesseract asks: "Since I run my own mail server, and have several processes in place to stop spam from hitting my mailbox, could it not be construed as a violation of the DMCA for spammers to 'bypass' my anti-spam protections? On a similar note, wouldn't retention of my copyrighted information (email address) be a violation of copyright law? It would seem that [parts of section 1201 might cover such situations]. How about this reference, as well? Isn't there some way to turn this legal nightmare back on itself kung-fu style?"

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Don't grant it the legitimacy by Pyromage · 2003-02-10 17:10 · Score: 4, Interesting

The instant you try to use it like this: sure it is valid under the letter of the law, however, it's clearly a wrong and misguided law, and arguably unconstitutional.

You'd probably win in court with this: this would be bad because it sets a precedent that the DMCA is valid, which it is not. Be better than they are and don't fsck over the rest of us.