[free-sklyarov] Idea...

vadim vadim_t at teleline.es
Sun Jul 22 17:02:26 PDT 2001


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This is partly an idea from slashdot 
(http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/22/0044234.shtml, Retarded Laws), but 
there's some of my own too. What's happening here is that a the DMCA is 
trying to forbid people from picking a lock. If the act of simply explaining 
how to open a door or decrypt encrypted data is illegal, imagine what would 
happen if this was applied globally?

Think about movies where a detective picks a lock or a delinquent robs a 
bank. Some movies explain in a quite great detail a bank's security system 
and how to break it. If the DMCA is ever applied globally, that will make a 
really incredible amount of information illegal. Suddenly, movies, books, 
articles in newspapers and many other thing will suddenly become illegal 
because they explain how to pick a lock.

This must never happen.

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Vadim
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