Re: [dvd-discuss] A TPM without use limitations -- thoughts?

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On 6 Nov 2002 at 19:08, John Galt wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:08:17 -0700 (MST)
From:           	John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] A TPM without use limitations -- thoughts?
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> On 6 Nov 2002, Steve Stearns wrote:
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> >On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:17, David Wagner wrote:
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> >> And what if future Morpheus or Gnutella clients automatically include
> >> code to strip fingerprints?  Just trying to understand the risks from
> >> the point of view of the record companies.
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> >Those Morpheus and Gnutella clients would get busted under the DMCA for
> >circumventing the fingerprinting of course.  
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> This isn't really much more of a penalty.  You can only declare a given 
> piece of software illegal so many times before it gets redundant.

The EFF spent over $1M defending Eric Corley...that's quite a penalty. The 
declarations of illegality may be redundant but the penalties are not-they are 
repetitive


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> >---Steve
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