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Federal Judge Rules Against Reverse-engineering

Posted by chrisd on from the freedoms-going-going-gone dept.

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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  1. The encrypted protocol? I have it right here... by joelparker · · Score: 5, Funny
    The encrypted protocol? I have it here,
    and I can post it on Slashdot right now,
    right after I answer the knock at the door...

    Cheers, Joel

  2. In other news... by eyegone · · Score: 5, Funny
    The United States has imposed martial law in Baghdad. Rape and murder will be tolerated, but anyone who violates a copyright will be shot on sight.

    --
    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."