You are very correct. This law allows what the MAI court did not. It was passed after the MAI decision, pretty much to cover the copying to RAM issue. It didn't make sense to Congress that a RAM copy would be illegal, since you can't use software w/o copying it to RAM.
So, what was the name of the law that fixed this big problem? Ah, yes.. the DCMA.
And in case I get an anti-DCMA person flaming me: the DCMA is a whole bunch of corrections to copyright law, some good, some horrible. When the time comes, the supreme court can throw out the horrible parts while keeping the good ones.
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You are very correct. This law allows what the MAI court did not. It was passed after the MAI decision, pretty much to cover the copying to RAM issue. It didn't make sense to Congress that a RAM copy would be illegal, since you can't use software w/o copying it to RAM.
So, what was the name of the law that fixed this big problem? Ah, yes.. the DCMA.
And in case I get an anti-DCMA person flaming me: the DCMA is a whole bunch of corrections to copyright law, some good, some horrible. When the time comes, the supreme court can throw out the horrible parts while keeping the good ones.
-Alfred