DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC?

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 20, 2007 @03:39PM from the heck-of-a-way-to-apply-for-a-job dept.

DragonHawk writes "According to Wired, John Stottlemire found a way to print duplicate coupons from Coupons.com by deleting some files and registry entires on his PC. Now he's being sued for a DMCA violation. He says, 'All I did was erase files or registry keys.' Says a lawyer: '[The DMCA] may cover this. I think it does give companies a lot of leverage and a lot of power.' So now the copyright cartels are saying that not only can we not copy things on our computers, but we can't delete things on our computers? Time to buy stock in Seagate."

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Re:Intentionally misleading by ystar · 2007-08-20 15:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

First off, if this isn't against the EULA (love those things, don't we?) of coupons.com, then they're idiots. The issue of not being allowed to copy items on your hard drive is hillarious though, what if you have a redundant RAID array or use ZFS/Leopard's spaces/etc? Come to think of it, isn't that technically running multiple copies of an OS? hmm, some companies probably frown upon that too, from what I hear...