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Message-ID: <3F84F42B.3010402@uberhip.com>
From: godber at uberhip.com (Austin Godber)
Subject: Shift key breaks CD copy locks

Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
> That's awesome man...I couldn't have said it better.  Censorship laws
> are very dangerous because they can be selectively enforced by law
> enforcement with the benefit of confusing a jury.
> 
> If you wanted to take the ATF's approach, it's not just having a
> keyboard that is breaking the law, it's the combination of having a
> keyboard AND the Windows operating system installed....since the
> protection doesn't work on the UNIX operating system you will be safe if
> you erase your hard drive and install Linux.


Or even scarier ... consider a different point of view ... NOT having windows 
installed circumvents the copy protection mechanism.  Thus inserting the CD into 
a machine with a non windows OS violates the DMCA.

Austin


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