RE: [dvd-discuss] Re: TurboTax for free?

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

Well ... and accessing the DVD you bought using
DeCSS is restricted by DMCA as well.  Currently.

The CD was sent unsolicited.  It is a gift.
I own it.  Therefore, I should be able to access
it, no?  How is this different than the arguments
we are using to claim the ability to access the
DVD we bought, bypassing CSS?


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-Richard M. Hartman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Finkelstein [mailto:sethf@sethf.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] Re: TurboTax for free?
> 
> 
> 	I believe the situation is that you have indeed been sent a
> gift, of a beautiful TurboTax coaster. You are free to use 
> this gift of a
> coaster/frisbee/object-d'art as you wish. However, installation of the
> software it just happens to contain is another matter. That is
> restricted by general copyright, DMCA, etc.
> 
> -- 
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