On 04/10/05, Martin Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Heise got sued because in the new copyright law of Germany, not only
> ownership, distribution and usage are forbidden but even also to provide
> any information about how one can circumvent a copy-protection. And
> distributing a link is such an information.

Without slagging off anyone's country and their laws (God knows the UK
have such a great history on stupid laws) that is a really scary law.
Doesn't that effectively mean that any discussion of reverse
enginneering is illegal in Germany. I know that's not what the law is
trying to do but it looks like that is a very likely side effect.


have fun
Marcus

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