On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Just a personal rant here, but I give it as my opinion that simply > possessing a mod chip should never be an offense, criminal or civil. > Selling such chips (under the terms of the DMCA) could be a civil > offense but should never be criminal. Imagine if every home had a > locked room that you owned but were never allowed to enter and the key > was illegal to obtain. What ridiculousness.
Yes, well, it's my personal opinion that software to play DVDs should never be illegal to distribute either, but unfortunately that's the boat we're in. To me, any "dubious legality" of mod chips is about as dubious as playing DVDs on my Linux box. ~ ross ---- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
