[free-sklyarov] Legal Technical

kastlyn at lowerlights.com kastlyn at lowerlights.com
Sun Jul 22 13:48:40 PDT 2001


Seth Finkelstein wrote:

>        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.]

Well, then, there are no grounds for arrest, because Adobe's technological
measure doesn't "effectively" control access to anything.  =}
        -=Amie Christensen=-




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