On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:08:25AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > Photoshop is an obvious "circumvention tool." > > (This may not be far from the truth. Color copiers have been under > various controls, we hear. Of course, very high-quality scanners, > programs like Photoshop, and high-quality printers more than exceed > color copiers, so the point has become moot. But we may see a range of > software programs classified as circumvention tools as we enter the New > Copyright World Order.)
Not yet, at least. http://www.cluebot.com/articles/01/07/19/2332232.shtml The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) says in section 1201 that: "No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof" that has as its primary use (or is marketed as) circumventing copy protection. But I admit it only takes one peevish congresscritter (see my article tomorrow on Feinstein) to delete "primary" from the statute... -Declan
