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Re: [dvd-discuss] So what is SonicBlue selling? DO I have to use to use thespyware?



From: "Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org>

> Here's a subversive question...what would be the legal status of someone 
> who modified his computer to search for and block the courts's directed 
> spyware program to return NOTHING or a note stating that the information 
> request has been blocked?

Or faking information?
"This ReplayTV has sent 35 copies of Caligula to jackboots@mpaa.gov"

Doesn't privacy law apply?

I think Mike Godwin mentioned that a similar discovery in the Betamax
case (to uncover user habits) was performed by a survey, with opt-out
provisions. Seems a lot more sensible than court-ordered spyware.

-- 
LarsG