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At 14:20 30.5.2002, you wrote:
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>Hmmm... was this mentioned already?
>http://www.winamp.com/news.jhtml?articleid=9242
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>It seems several people have devised a means to defeat the copyright 
>protection on CD's by carefully drawing over the layer of the CD that 
>contains the copy protection technology with a felt tip pen, thus keeping 
>it from causing a computer to crash upon reading it.
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>The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that under the rules of the 
>Digital Millennium Copyright Act, technically felt tip pens should now be 
>made illegal as they contribute to the break down of this copyright 
>protection technology.
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>In a blatant attempt to show some of the absurdity of the Digital 
>Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) many members of the on-line community are 
>now actually pushing to make felt tip pen's illegal to prove their point.

They also cause serious environmental damage when being abused by tagging
teenagers, and are also a great tool for spreading misleading and erronoeus
information.

There are also many known cases when a felt tip pen has been the main tool
in public insulting of people.

for example, "Erkkipetteri on homo" written on a toilet wall.


/ Antti Kurittu | http://kohina.cjb.net



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