From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Joshua Jore <moomonk@daisy-chan.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cus.cam.ac.uk>,
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>,
James Simmons <jsimmons@transvirtual.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] DMCA loop hole
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:10:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010811121054.D35@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1010801120427.25852A-100000@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk> <Pine.BSO.4.33.0108010137240.7994-100000@aaieee.daisy-chan.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0108010137240.7994-100000@aaieee.daisy-chan.org>; from moomonk@daisy-chan.org on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:44:25AM -0500
Hi!
> You know, I've heard this arguement a few times in various contexts and
> it's bothered me everytime. If a virus was designed with specific
> properties that hinder unauthorized copyright infringement then attempts
> to circumvent the limitations would be an example of DMCA circumvention.
>
> This misses the whole point that in order to deliver the second and more
> important part of the virus requires the author to self-identify to the
> US federal government and somehow get them to prosecute the offender. Now
Writing virus is not illegal (its just fine for educational purposes). Letting
it into wild probably is. So maybe author _could_ identify to government if
*he* did not sent virus in the wild.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-14 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-01 4:14 James Simmons
2001-08-01 5:45 ` Alexander Viro
2001-08-01 5:49 ` James Simmons
2001-08-01 9:40 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-01 10:47 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-01 11:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-08-01 6:44 ` Joshua Jore
2001-08-01 13:54 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-01 17:18 ` [very OT] " Garett Spencley
2001-08-01 20:40 ` Justin Guyett
2001-08-02 0:14 ` [OT] " Paul G. Allen
2001-08-03 21:52 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-08-03 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-03 22:16 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-08-03 22:45 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-03 22:31 ` nick
2001-08-03 22:46 ` Alan Shutko
2001-08-03 23:45 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-03 22:51 ` Mike Harrold
2001-08-03 23:14 ` Dan Hollis
2001-08-04 0:51 ` Paul G. Allen
2001-08-04 1:34 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-11 12:10 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-08-14 7:07 ` Joshua b. Jore
2001-08-14 12:36 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-14 13:17 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-08-14 14:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-14 22:13 ` Paul G. Allen
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