RE: [dvd-discuss] Postage Meters and the "Right to Tinker"

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

No, but I thought that the work had to be digital.
A dead tree book would not qualify.


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-Richard M. Hartman
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186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen L Johnson [mailto:sjohnson@monsters.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:56 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Postage Meters and the "Right to Tinker"
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:04, Sham Gardner wrote:
> > 
> > How about another example. If you were sent an unsolicited 
> dead-tree copy of
> > a book that had a padlock on it. Would you say it should be 
> illegal for you
> > to remove that lock using whatever means you see fit, when 
> the copyright
> > holder is offering to send you the key for a fee?
> 
> I just had a disturbing and sickening thought. That example 
> may actually
> qualify as a protection mechanism under the DCMA. 
> 
> I just reread section 1201. I didn't see anything which would 
> disqualify
> it. Nothing in the section says anything about the technology 
> having to
> be digital.
> 
> --
> Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
> 
>