Under the DMCA (http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html): A technological measure ''effectively controls access to a work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. The judge's decision in the DeCSS case makes it clear that it doesn't matter how strong it is, only that it be there. Since this message is encoded in ASCII, which falls under the definition of a "technological controling measure", and everyone reading this decoded it without my explicit permission, I am therefore sueing everyone on this list. Have a nice day. _______________________________________________ Freenet-chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freenet-chat