[free-sklyarov] Language: copy prevention

[Austin Hook]

How about:

"jail-baited media"

Austin Hook

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Xcott Craver wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > I'm suggesting that the term used to describe anti-circumvention works
> > under the DMCA be "copy prevention".  This describes what they do, they
> > provide (or attempt) a technical block on copying data.
> 
> 	Copying is only one thing publishers are trying to stop.
> 	Reading an EBook under Linux is not copying, and playing an
> 	Australian DVD on an American DVD player is not copying.
> 
> 	If we speak of copy-protection or copy-control, then we
> 	are inadvertently focussing on only one action, which
> 	happens to include piracy.  Publishers would probably
> 	prefer this linguistic cropping of the problem.
> 
> 	Could someone repost the URL for the present list of
> 	proposed counter-terminology?
> 
> 							-S
> 
> 
> 
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