On Mon, 28 May 2001, Declan McCullagh 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?
Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
