[free-sklyarov] A constructive form of protest

[David Haworth]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:25:29PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> 
> Patents on DRM stuff itself are a big risk.  If we got rid of the DMCA
> tomorrow, we would still have trouble circumventing Macrovision's copy
> protection schemes, _because Macrovision takes out patents on the
> technologies it invents to circumvent its own copy protection_!

Leaving aside any questions about the validity of these patents ...
That's not strictly true - unless they patent all possible circumvention
methods.

> Whether this means that the USPTO, or patentees, are violating the DMCA
> by teaching people how to circumvent TPMs is another matter.

:-)

Dave

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David Haworth
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