[free-sklyarov] Re: Adobe violation of the DMCA?

[James S. Huggins (Free Sklyarov)]

   >>>FWIW, Adobe's defense
   >>>would probably be that Acrobat 5.0
   >>>has an economically significant
   >>>purpose other than to circumvent
   >>>access controls, and is not marketed
   >>>for that purpose.


Does the "part" that circumvents the access controls have an economically
significant purpose other than to circumvent the access controls?

Does that "part" "need" to be bundled in with Acrobat 5.0 in order for the
remainder of Acrobat 5.0 to work?

Is selling an access control circumvention tool in the same box, or on the
same CD or running as part of the same overall software shell sufficient to
sheild that tool from the effects of the DMCA?


James S. Huggins