[Linux-Discussion] Re: Fwd: please forward to all: Perl DVD decoder
- From: Nils Vogels <nivo+linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:08:18 +0100
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:21:20PM -0500, John Madden wrote:
>
> Sorry about the HTML here guys.
>
Thats OK, I worked out a plain-text version:
> here is is..
>
> Actual Intellectual property lawyer's response:
>
> Yup, sadly, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act prevents unauthorized
> decoding. Here's the relevant section of the Act:
> "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or
> otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component,
> or part thereof, that-
>
> (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a
> technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected
> under this title;"
>
> The definitions of 'technological measure' and the other definitions in the
> statute are specifically designed to include things like DVD encryption
> (that's partly why they passed the Act, after all).
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