[free-sklyarov] Counter-Terminology

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 8:21 PM -0700 7/29/2001, Don Marti wrote:
>begin James S. Huggins (Free Sklyarov) quotation of Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at
>10:15:50PM -0500:
>
>> Suggestions so far are:
>>
>> 1) Copy controlled media
>> 2) Usage controlled media
>> 3) Crippled media (My suggestion)
>
>Copy-restricted media

I'd avoid using the word "copy" to describe what these measures (technical
and legal) strive to restrict. Copying is something that copyright holders
do have a right to restrict, but the sweeping and unprecedented new rights
granted by the DMCA involve *access*, not copying per se; accessing a copy
of a work you legally own, without any intention or result of infringing
copyright, is also illegal under DMCA if it can only be done by
"circumventing a technological measure".

"Copy-controlled" or "copy-restricted" understates the problem, I think.

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