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Re: [dvd-discuss] New DMCA case: ACLU sues filtering software makerN2H2



On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Bryan Taylor wrote:

> Wasn't there something about blocking software in the LOC's report. I vaguely
> remember that web blocking software was specifically named as an exception.

Yeah, an excemption from the anticircumvention statute but not for the
distribution of circumvention tools.

Subtle, but different.

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