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Originally posted by MrPopup
SunnComm, a software company whose CD protection scheme was broken by a student who pressed the shift key, will sue the student for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12034
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It will make for an interesting lawsuit.. because i think technically, he did violate the DMCA by figuring out how to "hack" or "reverse-enginneer" the process to get around the copy protection.
On the otherhand he was just releasing information about it.
But then again, the DeCSS script, plain ascii text, was banned from any US website by a court order because the text violates DMCA and those that displayed the code were contributing to the infringement.
The courts said, if i remember correctly, that 1st amendment rights of free speech were second to the infringement acts.
So you can speak out about the copy protection, kinda like me speaking out about patent abuse cases, but just don't post exact info about how to crack/hack the protection. (unless of course you live in a country that won't prosecute you for the information)
Fight the Patent!