RE: [dvd-discuss] A good use of circumvention

["Michael Columbus" <columbmt(at)notes.udayton.edu>]

No offense but it seems your arguing for the sake of arguing. Government
officials and law enforcement are exempt from recourse for 1201(a) or (b)
circumventions. So someone can make that arguement but unless the opposing
lawyer has already been disbarred he'd better not lose.

1201(e) Law enforcement, intelligence, and other government activities.
This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative,
protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer,
agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision
of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United
States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State. For purposes of this
subsection, the term "information security" means activities carried out in
order to identify and address the vulnerabilities of a government computer,
computer system, or computer network.


Michael Columbus


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Quite right....afterall the santity of intellectual property must be
preserved
now that Osama can invoke the DMCA to claim circumvention of his
intellectual
property...the sad thing is that I can imagine somebody actually making that
argument.

On 20 May 2002 at 23:02, mickey wrote:

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>
>  From "http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53157,00.html";,  about a new
> bin Laden video:
>
> "He said the film was on a CD-ROM, which the reporter brought to Britain
> 10 days ago. The CD-ROM contained a password, which the agency managed
> to unlock last week."
>
> It kinda stinks that we couldn't do that in the US.
>
> mickeym
>
>