At 04:29 PM 5/29/01 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> >> An equally interesting question is whether it is illegal for a consumer to
> >> copy already ripped DV material a friend may have. Since the person doing
> >> the copying did not circumvent the copy protection, not perhaps their
> >> friend, nor even know the original source and whether it was protected,
> >> they should not be liable.
> >
> >Wouldn't this be an area where traditional, boring copyright law would
> apply?
>
>Of course. But the question is still interesting when making the copy falls
>under fair use. Does DMCA protection somehow propagate to the decrypted
>data?
I don't see why it would. This really isn't a question that we need to
speculate about; you should just read the text of the DMCA. Again, it seems
to me that "traditional, boring" pre-DMCA copyright law would apply.
-Declan
