Doesn't the DMCA require the encryption to be a *copyright* protection scheme? How would this apply to an uncopyrighted doc file? Or even if it was copyrighted, the copyright owner wouldn't be the one who put that encryption there, so it can't be to protect their copyright. And it wouldn't fulfill the legal requirements for being "effective" protection - any dolt could copy it onto another computer and open it - the decryption would have to be automatic. So I really doubt any such measure would hold up in court.
Unless Microsoft starts hiding copyright notices in the doc format...muhuhahahaha! >:D
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Doesn't the DMCA require the encryption to be a *copyright* protection scheme? How would this apply to an uncopyrighted doc file? Or even if it was copyrighted, the copyright owner wouldn't be the one who put that encryption there, so it can't be to protect their copyright. And it wouldn't fulfill the legal requirements for being "effective" protection - any dolt could copy it onto another computer and open it - the decryption would have to be automatic. So I really doubt any such measure would hold up in court. Unless Microsoft starts hiding copyright notices in the doc format...muhuhahahaha! >:D