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Court Rules That Bypassing Dongle Is Not a DMCA Violation
tcrown007 sends along an appeals court ruling that, for once, limits the reach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention clause. "MGE UPS makes UPS systems and software that are protected by hardware dongles. After the dongles expired, GE bypassed the dongles and continued to use the software. MGE sued, won, and has now lost on GE's appeal. Directly from the court's ruling (PDF): "Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision... The owner's technological measure must protect the copyrighted material against an infringement of a right that the Copyright Act protects, not from mere use or viewing.' Say what? I think I just saw a pig fly by."
And I forgot Slashdot doesn't do bbcode. I'm too used to posting at theforvm.
And I forgot Slashdot doesn't do bbcode. I'm too used to posting at theforvm.
This is Slashdot. Welcome to 1998.
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It's not flying, it's falling, with STYLE!!
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
it's not flying, it's *orbiting*!
ERROR: SIG NOT FOUND (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?:
So while the first impression is that a pig has taken off, a more close inspection is showing that it is continuing on a ballistic trajectory after someone gave it some initial thrust. Not really flying.
A projectile pig is flying pig too, in principle.