Re: [dvd-discuss] How many bits is a technical protection measure?

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Oh...but it has the POTENTIAL for circumvention by others. I've never figured 
out what the purpose of unembeddable fonts was.<any ideas...other than the 
usual greed >  Assuming that I own a set legally, I bought it for use in 
communication. So if I can't embedd it into a document where somebody else can 
use it it it's not serving the purpose I bought it. 

So....before the DCMA had to save the world from screaming hoards of hackers 
wanting pillage the intellectual property of Hollywierd..now it's protecting 
the world from font thieves....the framers of the DMCA really had SFB.

On 23 Apr 2002 at 18:34, Charles Ballowe wrote:

> Interesting read. The lawyer cites 1201(a) and quotes 1201(a)(1) which
> seems to lack any foundation as there is no evidence that twm ever 
> circumvented a protection measure that was controling access to a work
> as defined in title 17. The only evidence from his site about Embed is
> that he has used it to open up fonts that he had created, certainly an
> allowable action.
> 
> They might have more of a case on 1201(a)(2), but that would require that
> the primary purpose of his program is circumvention -- nowhere is that
> indicated anywhere on his site. His intended purpose, as far as I can tell,
> is to open up fonts that he has created. Since creation of fonts by individuals
> isn't exactly an activity that few engage in, there is commercially significant
> uses of the program outside of its uses for circumvention. (At least I
> assume that would qualify).
> 
> Maybe he should report the lawyer to lerchey as someone harrassing him online.
> ;)
> 
> -charlie
> 
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:48:04PM -0400, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> > 
> > > So, a lounge-rat here wrote a program that would reset those flags to
> > > allow him to mark his fonts as embeddable.. He has recieved a DMCA
> > > takedown letter (which is on its way to ChillingEffects.org) from a font
> > > house ordering him to remove the program.
> > 
> > Now the dialog is up at:
> > 
> >     http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/embed/dmca.html
> > 
> > (For me, its blank, so I had to 'view source' to read it.)
> > 
> > Wow.. That makes interesting reading. His program has been in
> > existance for over 5 *years*... Now, they're claiming, retractively,
> > that its illegal under the DMCA.
> > 
> > Very very interesting.
> > 
> > Chilling effects!  If this actually goes past C&D letters, it would be an
> > even stronger exlempar of why no one can ever write any program that
> > might, at some time (even years) in the future be used for 'circumvention
> > of a copyright protection measure'... Which probably includes almost all
> > programs ever written.
> > 
> > Scott
> >