Hi Roger! 02 Jan 2003, Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RT> What is DMCA and what is it supposed to do? digital millenium copyright act a law that was passed, which among other things forbades circumventing DRM (digital rights management) measures. The porblem is that it is soooo extremely biased towards the RIAA and big entertainment companies, that it is easily abused. http://anti-dmca.org/ RT> Do you have a bill number and the outcome of any votes in either the RT> House of Representatives or the Senate? Do you have a copy of the RT> bill that the President is ready to sign or has already signed? sorry ... no I only know that it was long ago passed ... (clinton era ??) ok I have searched ... it was passed dec. 1998 http://www.loc.gov/copyright/legislation/dmca.pdf RT> Could you identify the American journalists that have been bribed? RT> Who did the bribing and what is the going cost of a bribe, in today's RT> dollars? This was only my fantasyzing. There were no facts ... I simply asked myself how it is possible that all major journalists shut up when such an important issue is at stake. And bribing was the easiest sollution ... but it can naturally be other things. I can only repeat myself it is a shame that such things can happen, and that journalists don't care (??) to inform the population. Hell ... even kernel-traffic (linux kernel ML summary) wrote about it: Kernel Traffic #132 For 10 Sep 2001: The EFF has issued a call for action regarding Dmitry Sklyarov, who faces up to 25 years in prison for violating the DMCA. I urge everyone to participate in the letter-writing campaign currently in effect. Please do what you can to help prevent what threatens to become a terrible tragedy. For more information on the case, see http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/. For more information on the DMCA, see http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/. To join the mailing list surrounding this issue, see http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov/. Kernel Traffic #148 For 31 Dec 2001 Elsewhere, Aaron suggested that Linux could bypass the hardware security by reverse-engineering the behavior and implementing it in software. But Dave Jones pointed out, "Remember DMCA ? Remember SSSCA ? What you propose is classed as "Bypassing an access control"." Kernel Traffic #161 For 8 Apr 2002 David Rees was unable to find the changelog for 2.2.20 on kernel.org, and Alan Cox said, "For non US citizens its available on http://www.thefreeworld.net"; Rasmus Bag Hansen asked how it could be possible that the patch would be legal in the US, but the changelog would not be. Mike Fedyk replied, "Basically, the politicians can't read the patch, but they might be able to understand the summary... Also, in many cases the change that fixes the security hole doesn't make exploit ideas obvious. While many times the security report includes the expliot itself." End of thread. Kernel Traffic #138 For 22 Oct 2001 An unidentified person suggested that modules could simply lie about their licensing and bypass these safeguards altogether, but Alan replied, "under the DMCA thats probably a criminal offence with five years in jail. I hope that this is enough for a wake-up call ... RT> Roger Turk CU, Ricsi -- |~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP) |~\|(__\| -=> Money is the root of all evil, but man needs roots <=-
