RE: [dvd-discuss] What is a "Technological Measure"?

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Murphy [mailto:murphy@panix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:56 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] What is a "Technological Measure"?
> 
> 
> 'Twas brillig when Richard Hartman scrobe:
> >LPs are not digital, so do not fall under protection of the DMCA.
> 
> I don't see the word 'digital' appearing anywhere in the text of 
> section 1201.  See http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html

Damn, your right.  Dunno why I didn't notice that before.

> 
> >This question has been raised in relation to CDs, however, given
> >that the _process_ of shining a laser beam & reading the reflectivity
> >is applied in the ordinary course of it's operation ...
> 
> Same argument.

Check the list archives.  It was discussed, but I don't recall any
real resolution to the question.

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