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Re: [dvd-discuss] The 2nd Front
- To: Jim Bauer <jfbauer(at)home.com>
- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] The 2nd Front
- From: Scott A Crosby <crosby(at)qwes.math.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:30:52 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: <dvd-discuss(at)lweb.law.harvard.edu>
- In-reply-to: <XFMail.20011216215248.jfbauer@home.com>
- Reply-to: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Sender: owner-dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Jim Bauer wrote:
> [No person shall circumvent a technological measure for the purpose
> of copyright infringement that effectively controls access to a work
> protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the
> preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year
> period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter. ]
>
Huh... Copyright infringement is already illegal. What does this clause
do?
Thats like saying that 'threatening someone with a plastic knife for
purposes of robbery is illegal', when the act of robbery itself is already
illegal, and has been for decades.
Scott