RE: [dvd-discuss] Good AiboPet Hacker - DMCA story in Sci Am

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:56 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Good AiboPet Hacker - DMCA story in Sci Am
> 
> 
> "The DMCA remains the law of the land and what AiboPet does 
> breaks it. 
> Sony
>  retains its right to crack down on AiboPet and others like him, but 
> chooses not
>  to exercise it, for now."
> 
> OK.....how does the doctrine of estoppel apply here?
> 

You take the estoppel out of the bottle and take a few
big swigs?

Perhaps you could give a brief description, for the 
non-lawspeak-enabled what "the doctrine of estoppel"
is? 



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-Richard M. Hartman
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