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RE: [dvd-discuss] Hearing on "Sovereign Immunity and the Protection of Intellectual Property"
- To: "'dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu'" <dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
- Subject: RE: [dvd-discuss] Hearing on "Sovereign Immunity and the Protection of Intellectual Property"
- From: Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:14:52 -0800
- Reply-to: dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
- Sender: owner-dvd-discuss(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microlenz@earthlink.net [mailto:microlenz@earthlink.net]
...
>
> Similar problems came up in the 70s from the Kent State
> Shooting. Sueing
> the jackass governor and national guard general required the
> state of Ohio
> to waive its sovereign immunity...but that's an interesting
> thought on states
> providing circumvention devices...somehow I don't think it
> will happen.
Oh, I dunno. A state college or university would be a
"state agency", and I can imagine that the could do a lot
of work on circumvention devices that the wouldn't hesitate
to publish (or otherwise make available).
--
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!