Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:24:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: ide-related kernel panic in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre11 |
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote:
> > > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > >>So could you ask the question a little more blunt? > >> > >>"Gee, I am trying to break a US Law on content protection, would you be my > >>enabler? Don't worry, it only effects the US, and we are in a public > >>forum. Also, do you prefer gray or black in your future pin stripped > >>suit?" > > > > > > Unless the rules have changed VERY recently, making a copy of legally > > owned music for personal use, such as in the car, MP3 player, etc, is > > called "fair use" and is totally legal. > > Actually the rules did change. read the DMCA. It's illegal to > break the security, regardless of the reason. So you have fair > use rights, but cannot take atvantage of them.
That would be making a "derivative work" which did not have the security, a true and faithful copy (ektype) has not broken the security.
> Same as the DVD and Ebook cases. Breaking the protection is > illegal. Eventually this will hit the courts, but it will take > several tries to win on fair use grounds.
Let's hope so, it will be an interesting trial(s).
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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