Re: [dvd-discuss] aibopet.com

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

As with Felton, when taken to court, the court may rule that the DMCA may 
NOT have anything to do with aibopet.com but is used as a club in the 
meantime....

http://aibohack.com/letter2.htm

"However, your site still contains information providing the means to 
circumvent AIBO-ware's copy
protection protocol constituting a violation of the anti-circumvention 
provisions of the Digital
Mellennium Copyright Act."

As you point out, he's posting SONY software <I agree. Rather than posting 
their code he should have posted the patches>and that would seem to be 
copyright infringement. But it is Software that SONY gives away, or rather 
one purchases with little Aibo and can only be run on little Aibo....the 
other week Jeme made some interesting observations about copyright 
protection of executables and this development adds another dimension to 
this. The "intent", albeit misguided, of the DMCA is to allow TPMs to 
prevent piracy-use technology to prevent piracy. OK what do we have 
here....It isn't piracy we have here. It's the ability to create 
derivative works. "disco aibo" is a derivative work NOT created by SONY. 
SONY is using the DMCA club to stiffle derivative works. 




Bryan Taylor <bryan_w_taylor@yahoo.com>
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--- Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com> wrote:
> the next DMCA victim.

I saw the Slashdot article, but I don't know anything about this product. 
What
does a robotic pet have to do with copyright?

It sounded like the guy was posting software that violated Sony's ordinary
copyright, but I don't see what the DMCA has to do with anything.

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