Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper

Posted by simoniker on Friday April 23, 2004 @02:21PM from the controversy dept.

The Importance of writes "Diebold's ill-fated e-voting machines have gotten a lot of coverage recently. Of particular interest is the fact that some of the most damning documents are legal memos leaked from Diebold's law firm, Jones Day. The memos were leaked to the Oakland Tribune. Now Diebold's lawyers are trying to suppress their publication. The judge has ordered the documents returned, except for those already published on the internet. Hopefully, the First Amendment will protect the newspaper's rights to hold onto the documents. However, EFF's Jason Schultz points out a very real and very scary scenario in which trusted computing combined with the DMCA makes such leaks illegal, regardless of the First Amendment."

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Umm no. ... I hope by pantherace · 2004-04-23 14:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

1st amendment=part of Constitution which is the highest law. DMCA federal law, which unless it gets into the constitution (not even a treaty, which is the 2nd highest), is inferior to the Constitution, and any place where the 1st amendment & the DMCA overlap, the 1st amendment wins.
At least, that's how it's supposed to work.