[free-sklyarov] Legal technicality question

[Seth Finkelstein]

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> IANAL, etc, but my understanding is that, while they couldn't manage to
> ban the _use_ of a circumvention device, creation or aquisition of a
> circumvention device were both banned.  So you're perfectly free to use
> such a program, but you can't get one without violating DMCA.

	IANAL either, but please examine the text of

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html

Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems 

 (a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures. 
  - (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that
effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

[then goes into modifications, additional offenses, defenses, etc.]

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Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html