[free-sklyarov] FT article

chandler chandler at yomogi.or.jp
Thu Sep 6 00:39:43 PDT 2001


The following article in the Financial Times (London) by Patti Waldmeir*
seems quite balanced.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3QUH9D9RC&live=true

Though I'm a bit puzzled by the claim that the software could be used to
make pirate copies. Yes, it could, but so could my Canon camera and
macro lens - why aren't they illegal. It seems to me there's something
profoundly incoherent (mathematically) in the concept of
"circumvention".


* Hey! Better arrest me. Patti Waldmeir's name is in a .gif file, which
can't be pasted into this message, and I just used a piece of technology
(my keyboard, mf'd by NMB Technologies of California, if you need to
arrest them too) to circumvent this ...


Brian Chandler
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