Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering

zurab writes "A federal judge in Boston threw out a challenge to the DMCA brought by the ACLU for a Harvard Law School student. Ben Edelman decided to ask court's permission to reverse-engineer the Internet filtering software made by N2H2 in fears of being sued by the company. Of interest is a quote from the ruling: "there is no plausibly protected constitutional interest that Edelman can assert that outweighs N2H2's right to protect its copyrighted material from an invasive and destructive trespass." Full story on Yahoo."

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Politicians love this

[kaltkalt]

They know that their friend who owns an internet filtering software company is blocking their opponent's website(s). They surely don't want us to find out who is doing this (lots) and what political websites are blocked (happens all the time). Hopefully the new Iraqi government will learn from our mistakes and strive for free speech....

Re:Holy crap the end is near: Disagree here

[Planesdragon]

Because of Florida has more electorial votes, when they swayed towards Bush it was enough (barely) for him to win the presidency.

Which means that the election was really divided anyway, so it was more of an "acceptable error" than a "theft."

Democracy survived the 2000 election unscathed.

Re:my school uses that..

[zdislaw]

"I don't even get the point of having a filter at a High School. I suspect, that given their free choice in the matter, most schools would not use such software. But look at who's running our government, and which kind of parents in the community are most likely to try and get a teacher or admin fired. I think that has more to do with why schools use filtering. They're afraid of losing what little is left of their government funding. I mean FUCK...the damn education chief just said, and I quote:

"The reason that Christian schools and Christian universities are growing is a result of a strong value system, In a religious environment the value system is set. That's not the case in a public school, where there are so many different kids with different kinds of values," CNN article

Because the last thing we want to recognize is that kids are different. Don't be too hard on the teachers, they're 'bout the only people who haven't abandoned you.