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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DMCA doesn't apply here. by Zack · 2003-02-10 16:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

The DMCA forbids circumventing encryption to get to copyrighted material. I fail to see how you can construe sending mail as that.

Secondly, your email address is a fact, and can not be copyrighted. No less than your street address.