On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Patrick R. Wade wrote: > I gather at least one of the "encrypted ebooks" he cracked was ROT-13'd. > Under the DMCA, the encryptor's intent to obscure the plaintext is all it > takes to make evading the cryptography an illegal tampering with a copyright > protection mechanism. > Yeah, rot-13 that's SOOO!! high-tech! I guess that just shows that the DMCA is all about legislating reality rather than dealing with it. Let this be a lesson to us all: This is the sort of thing that happens when legislation is written by the lobbyists for the clients and of the client's interests. > > Paper mail is worth a thousand emails; > How true that is. Of course enough emails... hmm.. i've been thinking about looking into httplib, just generate random valid addresses in eugene area and send them at irregular intervals...(wouldn't really honest) > > >http://www.senate.gov/~gsmith/webform.htm <<<Gordon Smith > > Washington, DC Office > 404 Russell Senate Office Building > Washington, DC 20510 > Phone: (202) 224-3753 > Fax: (202) 228-3997 > > > > >http://wyden.senate.gov/mail.htm <<<Ron Wyden > > WASHINGTON, DC > 516 Hart Senate Office Building > Washington, DC 20510 > (202) 224-5244 > EUGENE > 151 West 7th Ave. Suite 435 > Eugene, OR 97401 > (541) 431-0229 > -- > A full height 19" rack with a glass door looks very out of place > when it's all alone. Sort of like a perverted shrine to the > God of Blinkenlights. > - Pim van Riezen, in the Monastery >
